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Re: [LUG] Windows 8 adoption

 

On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 05:40:27PM +0000, bad apple wrote:
 
> Earlier I saw some users say they were either tied to Windows as their
> main OS or still had to maintain a separate box or dual boot partition
> on Windows for compatibility reasons: may I suggest if you can't get
> your required apps to work under wine, switch your Windows install to a
> virtual one and just run it as a VM when required? A clean Win7 install
> will happily sit in a VM configured with only 20Gb of sparse disk
> allocation and 2Gb RAM assigned, even 1Gb is fine as long as your
> required app isn't Photoshop or something. Unless your main PC is the
> biggest piece of crap ever surely you'll have dual 64bit cores and 4Gb+
> RAM which is easily enough to host a Windows VM on a Linux box.
> 

Love to, two questions

1)  How? (I run Debian Testing).
2)  I want this on a laptop thatI can close down.

(This was my task for the holidays: got caught by work)


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