Re: Virtualizing Windows Vista

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2008/2/24 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Henning Larsen wrote:
>  > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 11:53 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
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>  >> It sure would be nice to run Windows Vista on my Linux desktop for a few
>  >> work-related tasks.  This machine already dual-boots. I want to be able
>  >> to copy/paste from one environment to the other.
>  >>
>  >> Wine provides an emulation environment -- I'm looking for real Windows.
>  >>
>  >> I've read about Xen and we're using VMWare Enterprise at the office.
>  >> I'm unclear about the first, and I can't afford the second for a home
>  >> solution.
>  >>
>  >> Is this something anyone is doing on Fedora? If so, what are your
>  >> recommendations and caveats?
>  >>
>  >
>
> > You can use vmware-serve which is free, or use qemu, kvm, xen which is
>  > included in fedora, depending on your processor's capabilities.
>  >
>  Isn't there also a restriction on what versions of Vista you can
>  virtualize? I remember reading something about Vista home not
>  working. (Microsoft restriction.)
>
>  Mikkel

Those restrictions have been removed per this article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/22/microsoft_virtualisation_vista/
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