Intuit Software (Quickbooks etc) under Linux?

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Fraser Campbell <fraser-eicrhRFjby5dCsDujFhwbypxlwaOVQ5f at public.gmane.org>

| I just bought a new PC and it came with XP Home so I'm toying with the idea of
| putting XP into a VM rather than leaving it on it's own dedicated partition.

I've not tried a Microsoft Windows emulator.  There are times when one
might be useful.  I've always assumed that they were more problematic
than useful.

I have always assumed that:

- the damn WinXP that is bundled with brand-name machines that I've
  bought is not generic -- it is set up for the hardware I bought.
  One hint is that it comes on a "restoration disk" or, more recently,
  a "hidden" restoration partition.

- an MS Windows emulator emulates particular peripherals, usually not
  those on the actual hardware.

- the installed or restored MS Windows would not run on the emulated
  hardware.

- so a new copy of MS Windows needs to be purchased to run under the
  emulator

Is my concern correct or is there a good way to run bundled WinXP
under and emulator?

The best way, as far as I'm concerned, would be if I could run the
pre-installed WinXP, in its existing partition, under an emulator.

Additional complexity: two of my three such machines are AMD64s
running Linux natively but the WinXP installations are 32-bit
versions.  Is this a problem?

PS: restoring WinXP always clobbers the whole disk.  WinXP restoration
will not allow any existing partitions to be retained.  Reminds me of
some of the nature shows showing cow bird chicks (hatched from eggs
snuck into other birds nests by the mother) throwing other chicks out
of the nest.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Bird
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