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On Sunday 27 August 2006 11:24, Tony Sumner wrote: > Hello, Richard > > Welcome to the group. I'd like to add my bit to say that everyone is > extremely helpful and they know a lot. > > On Aug 14, 2006, Richard Brown was like: > > I hope that you'll enjoy using Linux and that > > dual booting will be a thing of the past shortly! > > Is this really possible? I run a Windows partition because I need to > run some software written for Windows by the local National Trust > association. I bought a copy of Windows XP for the purpose but would > qemu run the program in KDE? > > Tony Sumner I would agree with Grant - try wine first to see if it will run the program you need. Some programs won't run in wine, but most do. If wine cannot run the program, then look at Qemu, Bochs or VMServer. All three work in a similar fashion - they emulate a complete system, including graphics card, hard drive etc. You can install your Windows in there and run the application in that way. The VM systems are actually quite useful for testing different distros etc out as well - they are not limited to running Windows. I use Qemu to run various testing versions of distros to check things will work for me. Note that the virtual machine method does need a fair amount of ram to get anything like a realistic useability. On my laptop, which runs Kubuntu 6.06 with 768mb ram, I can happily run Xubuntu in a VM with 256mb ram allocated to the VM - but more hefty distros and indeed XP - would benefit from being allocated more if possible. Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html