Virtualizing Windows Vista

[Henning Larsen]

On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 11:53 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
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> It sure would be nice to run Windows Vista on my Linux desktop for a few
> work-related tasks.  This machine already dual-boots. I want to be able
> to copy/paste from one environment to the other.
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> Wine provides an emulation environment -- I'm looking for real Windows.
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> I've read about Xen and we're using VMWare Enterprise at the office.
> I'm unclear about the first, and I can't afford the second for a home
> solution.
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> Is this something anyone is doing on Fedora? If so, what are your
> recommendations and caveats?
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> ~  Steve

You can use vmware-serve which is free, or use qemu, kvm, xen which is
included in fedora, depending on your processor's capabilities.

Henning