[Novalug] Windows virtualiation
Rich Goodwin
rich.goodwin@cox.net
Sun Feb 11 17:55:41 EST 2007
I'm going through this now... installing VMware player to have M$ OS for
quickbooks. Research I've done shows there is no way to get quickbooks
running under Linux. I understand you can download the player, load
your variant of Winderz and go without any VMWare costs. i am loading
the kernel sources for openSuSe 10.2 as I type to install the VMWare
player.
To be clear - CrossOver Office ... doesn't crossover the Intuit product
line or at least a current version of Quickbooks. There is a Linux
Native accounting package - MyBooks. $59 for 1/2 user license on Linux.
In working with my accountant, it was just too much accounting for what
I want to do.
Rich
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 15:15 -0500, William Warren wrote:
> I don't use IE except for winders updates. I want it for quickbooks.
> Otherwise i don't need winders on my business computer..<G>
>
> John Franklin wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 11, 2007, at 12:33 PM, William Warren wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a free or cheap(sub $100) that will allow me to run windows
> >> programs inside of Linux aka like parallels on the mac with it's
> >> coherency mode?
> >
> > Depends on the app. If you're trying to run IE under Linux (generally
> > to do web compatibility testing), then you can use Wine and the
> > IEs4Linux install script.
> > (http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page). That works fine
> > for IE 5, 5.5, and 6, but not 7. Wine is free, and runs the windows
> > apps alongside Linux apps. I set up Wine to run the Windows Firefox and
> > Shockwave for a friend of mine so his daughter could get to a particular
> > site on her Ubuntu box. (There is no Shockwave for Linux, and Flash was
> > not sufficient. Not even Flash 9.) The integration is such that you
> > may not notice it's a Windows app.
> >
> > Like the various versions of IE, some other apps run great, some don't
> > even launch.
> >
> > jf
> > --John Franklin
> > franklin@elfie.org
> > ICBM: 38º 56' 32.6"N 77º 24' 47.7"W Z+62m
> >
> > .
> >
>
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