[PLUG] Alternatives to Vmware?

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Tue Apr 2 18:27:00 UTC 2002


On Tuesday 02 April 2002 11:04, you wrote:
> Hello Linux folkz,
> Does somebody know any good alternatives to Vmware to run a few M$
> applications as Word97, Excel97.
> My manager still can't get rid of his nasty habit of using M$
> applications.
> Many thanks in advance for any advise or source of information.

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>
> Alex
>
> P.S.
> Information for thoughts:
> Initially we ran VMware-2.0.3 on a half of our engineering
> workstations in parallel with Linux (SuSE7.1 and SuSE7.3)
> After six months of usage, suddenly, all these workstations started to
> crash for no apparent reasons. It was looking as a hard drive falure.
> In the same time workstations which ran Linux only, continued to run
> without any problems. Hardware wise our 12 engineering workstations
> are all identical.
> Is it possible that running in parallel VMware on Linux could cause
> such system crashes?
>
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