running windows via kvm module -- any experiences?

Chris Bannister mockingbird at ihug.co.nz
Thu Feb 1 01:13:27 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:31:30PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:06:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > My girlfriend is buying a new computer a month or two from now and I'm
> > hoping to convince her to let me install ubuntu feisty on it, and set up
> > a windows VM using the new KVM module and rdesktop.  The idea of the VM
> > is to let her use software she feels she 'really needs' -- right now,
> > this is MS Office, endnote and Dreamweaver (I'd like to make all 3
> > disappear, but that's another, longer-term project).  
> > 
> If those are the only programs she really "needs" from MS-land, then
> crossover office would be a real possibility and then you could possibly
> go completely Linux.  We use it at my church since the Pastor and some
> of the staff need Office XP.

Does crossover office provide a replacement for endnote?

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Chris.
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