Re: Running Windows on top of Linux

From: philo (philo_at_privacy.net)
Date: 06/10/04 

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:48:37 -0500

"Charles" <nothing@nothing.com> wrote in message
news:opr9ecoxjj04bz63@einstein.mshome.net...
> I have been seeking a good solution to be able to run Windows on top of
> Linux Gentoo. I found Win4Lin. There is also VMWare, but it's not on top
> of Linux. I think I may order the workstation edition of NeTraverse's
> Win4Lin, unless you suggest other solutions to run my image editing and
> publication software (Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop CS and
> CorelDraw). CrossOver web site says they don't support these latest
> versions yet.
> Thanks, Charles.
>
>

don't waste your time...
i've run operating systems within virtual machines and found that the
guest OS took a pretty big performance hit...
dual booting is really the best way to go
(unless of course you run a server which cannot reboot)

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