[PLUG] Alternatives to Vmware?

[Doug Rosser]

Unfortunately, VMWare still requires kernel patches to run under Linux, so 
that would be my first guess as to where the problem stems.

As far as a full alternative to VMWare, try www.plex86.org. It aims to fully 
virtualize a PC just like VMWare.

dr

On Tuesday 02 April 2002 11:04 am, 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.
>
> 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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