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[ale] VM ?

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 13:37 -0500, Jim wrote:
>   
>> Paul Cartwright wrote:
>>     
>>> I am not at all familiar with VMware or virtualization, or whatever you call 
>>> running Windows under linux. My wife wants to be able to run windows under 
>>> SUSE without rebooting. Basically to run Quicken & Quickbooks.
>>> What are a few GOOD options? Is it VMware, or Zen, or.. a good doc tutorial, 
>>> or installation guide would be handy:)
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> VMware will let you run Windows as a guest under Linux, however it 
>> virtualizes all the hardware so if you like to be able to plug stuff 
>> into the box, like dongles, cameras, etc. and use them under Windows, 
>> forget it. 
>>     
>
> What??!  That's not true.  VMWare guests can load USB dongles/devices, I
> did it many times before switching to VBox on my laptop.  VBox too can
> access USB devices, although it's config is a bit trickier.
>
> -Jim P.
>   
OK my apologies, I didn't get it to work but then I didn't play with it 
too long either.

Jim.