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[Craig Sanders]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:54:03AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> > alternatively, you could run
> > windows & MYOB under linux with vmware or xen
> 
> I doubt that the Lenevo has the Intel VTX technology to run Windows 
> under Xen.

there are numerous alternatives to xen.  CPU support for virtualisation
is useful, but not essential. vmware, for instance, has been around for
several years - long before any of the recent generation of CPUs with
VTX...in fact, it was the existence of vmware and similar that inspired
Intel & AMD to add support for virtualisation to their CPUs.

people have been doing exactly what i suggested for years in order to
run MYOB or one or two other "must-have" windows applications on their
linux machines.

for business apps, it works well...not so good for games or other stuff
that requires direct access to the hardware.

craig

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