The pest again

Jeffrey Needle jeff.needle at gmail.com
Sun Jul 20 22:46:14 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 21:33 +0200, 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
> 
> 

The first link is very helpful -- thanks.  The second page doesn't seem
to exist.

Thanks!
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