On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:06:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > 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).
Remember KVM _requires_ a CPU with hardware virtualization instructions. Not all CPUs have that. None of mine do so I certainly can't try it out. :) > Her main objection right now is that the person trying to convince her > is a known linux ideologue who spends hours at a time hacking on his > machine, and that she has no interest whatsoever in hacking -- she just > wants her computer to work for her in a fully transparent way. Another option is vmware, although that may be too much trouble to use as well. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
