Re: [TLUG]: running windows via kvm module -- any experiences?

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 18:24 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:06:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
My girlfriend is buying a new computer a month or two from now and I'm
hoping to convince her to let me install ubuntu feisty on it, and set up
a windows VM using the new KVM module and rdesktop. The idea of the VM
is to let her use software she feels she 'really needs' -- right now,
this is MS Office, endnote and Dreamweaver (I'd like to make all 3
disappear, but that's another, longer-term project).

Remember KVM _requires_ a CPU with hardware virtualization instructions.
Not all CPUs have that. None of mine do so I certainly can't try it
out. :)

yes, I know. the core-duo hcips seem the obvious hcoice, probably
either a thinkpad x60 or a sony sz series.

Her main objection right now is that the person trying to convince her
is a known linux ideologue who spends hours at a time hacking on his
machine, and that she has no interest whatsoever in hacking -- she just
wants her computer to work for her in a fully transparent way.

Another option is vmware, although that may be too much trouble to use
as well.

I do want to keep it pretty fast. vmware is fairly straightforward to
set up on ubuntu now, htough, so that may actually be a pretty good
option.


--
Len Sorensen
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
--
Matt Price
History Dept
University of Toronto
matt.price@xxxxxxxxxxx

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part

--
ubuntu-users mailing list
ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

Relevant Pages

  • Re: [TLUG]: running windows via kvm module -- any experiences?
    ... hoping to convince her to let me install ubuntu feisty on it, ... a windows VM using the new KVM module and rdesktop. ... The Toronto Linux Users Group. ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Re: John Dvorak Speaks
    ... Too bad that piece of CRAP Ubuntu doesn't run any of the popular ... "Almost all the newest hardware coming out has Linux support. ... will now install it permanently on my latest machines. ... the work for the OS, and even so, it's at least as snappy as Windows. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.general)
  • Re: John Dvorak Speaks
    ... Too bad that piece of CRAP Ubuntu doesn't run any of the popular software programs that 99.99999999% of the people on planet earth use! ... "Almost all the newest hardware coming out has Linux support. ... Ubuntu is particularly cool because the install version is also a "live" version, meaning that you can boot it and run it from a CD without installing the OS at all. ... I'm not sure how many legacy old clunkers can run this operating system, but it's the perfect reinstall for older machines that bog down under Windows. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.general)
  • Re: John Dvorak Speaks
    ... Too bad that piece of CRAP Ubuntu doesn't run any of the popular software ... "Almost all the newest hardware coming out has Linux support. ... will now install it permanently on my latest machines. ... the work for the OS, and even so, it's at least as snappy as Windows. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.general)
  • Re: apple does it again, invisible aluminum
    ... If you disagree that is fine, TLK, but do not pretend to have any moral high ... With Ubuntu, on the other hand, there is no default preferences format, ... * Apple does things *differently* than Linux such as having different ... claim to have given and cannot remember it to repeat it. ...
    (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)