On 2008-05-06, Darrell Stec <darrell_stec@webpagesorcery.com> wrote:
> Vahis wrote:
>
>> On 2008-05-05, Darrell Stec <darrell_stec@webpagesorcery.com> wrote:
>>> Vahis wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2008-05-05, Riberto <riberto@ml1.net> wrote:
>>>>> I have been a Suse Linux user for several years now.
>>>>> Currently use OpenSuse 10.3 looking forward to 11.0
>>>>>
>>>>> For work I HAVE to use that other stuff cause my Company uses some
>>>>> programs written for that stuff and we ARE required to use it WITH OUT
>>>>> messing with it!
>>>>>
>>>>> Heck its their money so what can I say!!!
>>>>>
>> <snip>
>>>>> Is there a program or a way to adjust any of these popular web browsers
>>>>> to emulate Internet Explorer?
>>>>> There are times I need to access these sites for WORK and hate to
>>>>> switch over to the WRONG side of my laptop's partition.
>> <snip>
>>>> You can run IE in Linux with wine:
>>>> http://www.winehq.org/
>>>>
>>>> Or you can run the whole windows in Linux with VMware.
>>>> I've made instructions to put it in openSUSE:
>>>>
>>>> http://waxborg.servepics.com/english...vmware.en.html
>>>>
>>>> There's also VirtualBox, included in openSUSE which does the same thing.
>>>> I've been happy with VMware, so I've got no experience with the latter.
>>>>
>>>> I'd reckon just for the browser, use Wine
>>>>
>>>> Vahis
>>>
>>> But that requires that they purchase Winders.
>>
>> This was a company in question who requires windows IE?
>> They don't want Linux?
>> So they phey pay?
>>
>>
>>> And none of those virtual
>>> machines will work with many modern computers because the manufacturers
>>> do not provide Windows disks anymore.
>>
>> None will work? Where did you get that from?
>>
>> And sure windowses can be bought.
>>
>
> But that is the whole point. They already purchased Windows once with the
> machine, just like I did with mine. The purchase price was built in. When
> there are no disks and only an all or nothing recovery partition then
> virtual machines are of no use. To use Windows they must purchase a second
> copy on disk.

All or nothing? What are you talking about?

No, they don't need more licences.
>
> So yes Windows can be purchased but with a VM it gets bought twice.

You don't know what you are talking about.
>
>>> A great many of them have a restoration
>>> partition that wipes out the harddrive and restores the computer to its
>>> pristine, just bought condition. Even if the VM is free, it is going to
>>> cause an outlay of cash for the Winders disks.
>>
>> Virtual machine gives a disk image to the guest OS who takes it as a disk.
>> It also provides it with the rest of the virtual hardware.
>> The guest won't touch the rest of the disk. It does not even know there's
>> life outside this virtual machine.
>>
>
> But doesn't Windows have to be installed on the Linux partition or are you
> saying that with a dual boot setup, a virtual machine talks to the Windows
> partition from the Linux partition?
>
> I didn't think that was the case.

You install a virtual machine on the host system and then you install a guest
operating system in that virtual machine.

For the host system the Virtual machine is a bunch of files and the guest OS
installed there thinks it's a real machine.

You are obviously confusing two completely different things here.
Dual boot has not been mentioned here before now at all.

Dual boot is one thing, virtual machine a totally different one.

Vahis
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