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On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:57:36PM -0500, Matthew Rosewarne wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, jeff wrote: > > Since the previous OS literally died, I didn't have time to do a proper > > migration. I had backups plus the data on the drive. I slaved the old > > drive so I'd have ready access, The only plan I could come up with was > > my old joke of running XP in a VM, so I got busy preparing that > > environment. > > I provide support for a family member who made a similar "unplanned > migration". He has gotten great results from Crossover, since he absolutely > requires MS Office. If an app doesn't run in Crossover, he runs it in a > Win2000 QEMU VM. I've been trying to get rid of the windows box on my desk at work, and have recently set up qemu on my debian amd64. I only need office for outlook and occasional testing of webapps on ie. Runs well so far, got the kqemu-kernel stuff going, and I think outlook is even faster (though I'm giving the vm more ram than the original box had). Congrats on taking the plunge! ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug