Re: [Xen-users] applications, winxp, pentium D

[Ernst Bachmann <e.bachmann@xxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 13 February 2006 13:46, variant integrity wrote:
> Hi all, this is my first post to the list! I'm from Scotland and am
> currently living in Dublin with my Swedish girlfriend (im on holiday
> in Sweden now though) :P
>
> I'm planning a computer as a present for my girlfriend in a few
> months. She uses a couple of windows only applications unfortunatly so
> I was hoping to use windows XP ontop of linux with a pentium D.
> Unfortunatly I don't know anything about virtualisation technology at
> all and I kinda just need some reasurance that what I want to do is
> feasable!
>
> The system will be dual monitor so that XP will run on one monitor and
> hopefully share a mouse curser and keyboard with GNU/Linux. Files will
> need to be shared between the operating systems which is somthing that
> I see as being a bit of a problem.. perhaps xp and linux can both use
> a samba share (on localhost) to access the filesystem?
>
> Using the virtualisation technology of xen and the pentium D cpu I
> should be able to do these things right?
>
> If you can offer any advice or experiances that could point me in the
> right direction I would be very gratefull!
>
For that application I'd suggest you use vmware or the free (as in beer) 
vmware-player.

windows will have a much better graphics performance since vmware installs its 
own optimized video drivers into windows, you can share the mouse cursor + 
keyboard, and maximize the window on only one screen of a xinerama setup.

/Ernst

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