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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/18/2012 07:53 PM, Ed Hurst wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:op.wpjgqvlwogx5dc@proph-pc.ok.cox.net"
type="cite">Been playing with virtual machines the past few days.
Anybody done much with them?
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Someone gave me Win7 Pro machine; needed only a new hard drive.
Got it back to life and I'm enjoying it as the primary means to my
book writing. It had no office ware on it, so I've had to make the
most of it while saving up. I like the grammar checkers. So I got
my hands on a discarded MS Word 2000 and it runs quite well on
Win7. Still, I like to balance that
with WordPerfect and Grammatik.
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All I could get was 6.1 for Windows, which works okay in MS's XP
Mode. However, MS Virtual PC is utterly useless for anything else.
It's cranky and only a narrow selection of older distros work at
all. They all work poorly, at that, so far as I can see.
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VMware Player allowed me to run Win98 (thinking mostly about older
Win/DOS stuff), but their integration is missing some critical
stuff on that. Got it working in spite of them. However,
installing Ubuntu 8.04 was a piece of cake, scripted in advance.
Running it is really impressive. It's fast and integrated fully
with Win7. So I tried my copy of WP8 for Linux, but
had forgotten how bad the fonts were. Almost unusable.
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Still, I have a nice way to run Linux when I need it, so long as
it's not something too power-hungry.
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I did setup Virtual Box and installed "7" Ultimate in it. It worked
well, for most things, except writing accurately to blu-ray
burners...some DVD burners as well. No other problems of note. I did
it just as an experiment and to have the experience. ALL OSs and
apps. were 64-bit...Linux was openSuSE 12.2. <br>
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Fred<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Liberals! "No one is so generous as he who has your savings
to give." ~ German Proverb</pre>
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