[papasmurf]

I run WinXP on my Ubuntu Linux machines through a free application called VirtualBox. It’s a virtual machine similar, but easier and free, than VMWare. In fact, I have several “VirtualMachines” running on one machine.

You can download VirtualBox here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads , or, you can download it from the repositories.

I like to get the latest version from their website as a .deb pkg, and let my archive manager install it as I download it. Clean and quick!

I don’t even bother with Wine anymore.

Good luck!

[ThePythonicCow]

VirtualBox

Good point. I haven't had reason in the last year to re-evaluate virtual Windows environments, but if I did, I suspect that for most ordinary uses, VirtualBox would now displace the VMWare setup that I paid good money for a year ago. VirtualBox has been rapidly improving. There is a good comparison chart on the VirtualBox site at VirtualBox vs. VMware vs. Parallels.

The last time I evaluated these, a year ago, I needed VMWare because it had more elaborate support for setting up clustered environments -- I was emulating ten or twenty PC's simultaneously, connected in a hierarchy of multiple LANs, developing a next generation cluster product before the hardware was available, and VMWare was the only tool that could handle it. This is not a need that most people have.

But the next time my Windows box that I have dedicated to running Quicken pisses me off, I will either abandon Quicken, or move that Windows environment to a VirtualBox running on one of my big Linux servers.

[bcsco]

Well, thanks a lot. I’ll download it and see how it goes. But I doubt I’ll get it done until after the holidays.

[bcsco]

I downloaded VirtualBox. But the documentation indicates I’ll likely have to install more RAM. That means it’ll have to wait until later. Thanks for the information though. I have what I need when I get more RAM (my 512Mb just won’t do it).

[zeugma]

I run WinXP on my Ubuntu Linux machines through a free application called VirtualBox. It’s a virtual machine similar, but easier and free, than VMWare. In fact, I have several “VirtualMachines” running on one machine.

I tried Virtualbox out, and had issues with it. It just didn't seem like it is quite ready for prime-time. There were some things about it I liked better than VMware though, so I'll be checking back in on it periodically.