Re: [LUG] Redhat 7.3 & Alcatel

[kevin bailey <kev.bailey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard.Fuller1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Ok so I've got a couple of ways of skinning the same cat.....Alcatel
> Modem or an ADSL ethernet router.
>
> General query now ! My interest in Linux stems from the fact that I
> use the internet to trade the financial markets. The trading platforms
> I HAVE TO use are "W" and also "IE" specific........."W" and "IE"
> being rather unstable products I run quite a risk of
> "freezes"........are there any Linux programs that will emulate/fool
> the Trading Platforms into thinking they are on "W" and "IE" but with
> the better stability of Linux ??

vmware is excellent - you can boot up a virtual machine inside a window 
on a stable linux box.  i've even had win98 and winNT running 
simultaneously in separate windows on a mandrake machine.

the networking can be configured a couple of different ways but is 
basically painless - the virtual machine gets its own IP address and 
just appears as another machine on the network - browsers email and 
stuff work fine.

best of all (for your case) you can save a windows session which is 
open.  it sort of goes into suspend mode.  if a windows session crashes 
(unlikely!?!)  you can then just open a ready running windows session - 
much faster than rebooting.

HTH

kev










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