[ALUG] Some advice needed

[nev young]

Chris G wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:03:15PM +0000, Alistair Macgregor wrote:
>> Can someone please help with some advice.
>>
>> At the moment I run a dual boot system, with Windows XP and Ubuntu  
>> sharing my hard drive. I would like to go the whole hog and rid myself  
>> of windows. I know I can do 90% of what I use my computer for under  
>> Linux, office, graphics and music.
>>
>> The only thing I'm having trouble with is an equivalent for Planetside  
>> Terragen landscape generator. Is there anything compatible  or am  I  
>> stuck  running it in WINE.
>>
> Personally I'd go for running XP in VirtualBox, it's what I do for the
> odd bits and pieces that I can't transfer to Linux, in my case these
> are:- 
>     Epson software for my scanner
>     An access database (I keep meaning to transfer to Dabo)
>     Occasional web sites that need IE to work (many French ones)
> 
As said above I too would recommend Sun's virtual box.

I know you need to have a full windows install within Vbox but you 
already have one available as you dual boot.

I kept a winXP vbox as my scanner didn't work with SANE (it does now 
that I've fixed and recompiled the SANE driver), and I do find it handy 
for some other devices that will only work with windows eg my Motorola 
phone, and the odd IE only website. It is pretty useless for graphic 
heavy applications though.

For me the good part of Vbox is I get from *buntu to a fully working and 
ready to use WindowsXP in under 20seconds rather than the 10-15mins 
needed to boot up my spare windows machine.

I've never had any success with WINE but YMMV.

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nev