interacting with wondows on a new laptop//endnote functionality

[Matt Price]

hi folks,

my girlfriend is buying a new laptop (thinkpad x61s, looks sweet) and is
ready to make the switch to linux.  However, she has one serious
requirement that makes it difficult to make the full switch.  She writes
in MS Word and uses endnote to manage her citations.  She has a
substantial endnote database which she needs to retain access to, and
she also uses endnote's in-paper citation facility  from inside word.
There don't really seem to be equivalents in openoffice for these
features; the bibliographic project is working on implementing some, but
that is at LEAST a year off; and as far as i can tell endnote doesn't
really run in WINE.  

One option is to use zotero from firefox, but i don't think that's
really satisfacory either.  So i think michelle will need to run windows
from time to time.  The best option would be to run xp or vista as a
virtual machine inside linux, but this may be very processor-intensive,
and also, i htink it's hard to suspend-to-disk and suspend-to-ram from
the host os when virtual os's are running.   I know that the ubuntu
xen-enabled kernels don't have suspend options enabled.  Suspending will
be pretty much essential on this machine, though. So what i'm hoping to
do is to use the vista or xp partition as a vm under vmware, xen, or
kvm, with a dual-boot option also enabled.  Has anyone done this?  Any
suggestions on what to do?  the laptop won't be here for a week or two
but i want to have a plan of action in place before it arrives.

Thanks loads,

matt



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Matt Price
History Dept
University of Toronto
matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
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