The pest again

[Steven Davies-Morris]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 11:58 -0700, Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
>> Is this now a dual-boot Ubuntu/WinXP system?  I get the distinct
>>  impression that you are expecting WINE to magically give you
>> access to the "Windows side" of a dual-boot system.  Which is not
>> what it does at all.
> 
> That said, if the OP wants to have access to his existing Windows 
> install and run that in a window under Ubuntu, this can be done
> with virtualization. At least vmware supports it (with may a bit of
> Windows profile fiddling), I don't know about other virtualization
> solutions like Virtualbox or others.
> 
>> <http://www.winehq.org/>
> 
> Also: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/wine

Yup. I use Virtualbox myself for the few things I have to have that
won't run via WINE.
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