Re: emulating Windows

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
> So what do you use when you need to run Windows?  Any advice or recommendations?

Do you really mean emulation? wine is your best bet and after a long time 
in the wilderness it actually works pretty well on NetBSD now (thanks to
jmcneill@ and reinoud@). Office 2003 worked for me as did quite a lot of 
other software (as long as it didn't require network access).

Otherwise, you've got things like Xen where you can run Windows as an HVM 
guest (if you have a suitable VT-enabled CPU). After Xen, your options 
get more clunky and slow (e.g. qemu).

You could always shove a PC under the desk and rdesktop to it :-)

--
Stephen