Re: [tlug] xen and windows: Vista Forbidden (Almost, Not quite)

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

>> BTW, Darren you can run various versions of IE on Linux using wine.
>> This way you can do very quick compatibility testing and then boot
>> into your VM to do more strenuous testing later on.

Wine is just such a pain. E.g. to get Flash 5 (IDE) to work I had to
copy over half the DLLs from a windows system, Japanese never displayed,
and it frequently crashed. Flash MX I never even got to run. (Since
mtasc (open source commandline tool for making Flash) I've not needed
the Flash IDE, so I now only have one app left that I run via wine; the
graphics are slightly broken in places, but in this particular case that
doesn't matter.)

>>> This is only partly true.  The license for Windows Vista Home Basic
>>> forbids virtualization (That is the least expensive version).
...
>> And which variant is likely to come bundled with the box that Darren
>> is thinking of buying I wonder?
...
> If that ends up being the case, then he needs to know
> which version NOT to get.

I actually said XP in the original post deliberately. It is a small
sample but every experienced computer person I know who is using Vista
hates it and wishes they were still using XP. So I'll go out of my way
to avoid Vista.

But it sounds like pre-installed windows is not going to be useful to me
anyway.

Darren