Wine & Office 97

[Eberhard Roloff]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Eberhard Roloff wrote:
>> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 
>>> You should consider a virtual machine, in that case.  If you're lucky,
>>> it will abstract away the hardware incompatibility and let you run
>>> Windows on Ubuntu full-time.
>>>
>>> Matt Flaschen
>>>
>> Yes I was using win 98se under vmware and office 97 respectively access
>> 97 is not a problem. The only drawback:
>> Since Win 9.x by design consumes 100% of your CPU, even when the OS is
>> idle, anything outside your vmware session will be very slow.
> 
> VMWare (along with other programs) will allow you to limit the CPU Hz
> allocated to the VM.  See
> http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_esx_resource_mgmt.pdf (e.g. p. 23)
> 
> Matt Flaschen
> 
Thanks!
While that looks awesome for esx, I wonder how to do this with the free
(as in money) vmware server? I looked araound but could not find anything.
When I imagine the szenario of ten ex w98 machines now running Ubuntu, I
can hardly imagine to install an esx server on any of them.
A central esx server also might be out of reach.

Any advice on how to do this with the cheaper versions?

regards
Eberhard