VMware Player is free, as in it doesn't cost you anything, and you can
get it from VMware.
True about updating the BIOS, but I guess I haven't had to do that in
the two years I've owned my laptop, I do have my laptop set up to dual
boot between Windows and Linux, so I can always boot into Windows if I
need to update the BIOS. Like I said, I haven't had to boot directly
into Windows on the bare metal since the first weekend I bought this
laptop over two years ago.
On 03/24/2013 04:39 AM, Tony Baechler wrote:
Interesting. I know VMWare is non-free, so it isn't available in
Debian. I don't have X on any of my machines, so Orca currently isn't
an option. I have a Debian unstable and experimental install, but I
also get a lot of errors and couldn't get speech with Gnome, so I gave
up on it. I'll have to start over with a new install one of these
days. My main desktop doesn't have hardware virtualization, so Windows
would be very slow in a VM. My server has KVM and supports hardware
virtualization, but I never bothered to set up a Windows VM because it's
primarily a server and I usually don't access it from the console. I
almost always access it with ssh and I don't think I could use Windows
with speech over an ssh connection. I definitely want to spend several
days in Gnome learning Orca, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. By the way,
there is something you can't do in a Windows VM. That is installing
BIOS updates. Almost all of them require Windows to flash your BIOS
firmware. Obviously, a VM won't work for that.
On 3/23/2013 8:16 AM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
My set up is a bit different. Currently I'm running Ubuntu on my desktop
system, and I bring Windows up in a virtual machine as necessary. I use
VMware Player since it's GUI is accessible with Orca. This way, I
don't have
to reboot to switch between Windows and Linux. I run Linux as my host OS
since that's the OS I spend most of my time in. I used to do it the other
way, but once I got comfortable enough with Linux, I switched them
around.
Note, that my desktop system is set up to dual boot between Windows and
Ubuntu, but I haven't booted it into Windows since that first weekend
I got
it two years ago. I haven't found there's anything I need to do in
Windows I
can't do in a virtual machine.
I also use VMware Player to run newer versions of Ubuntu in a virtual
machine as well. This gives me a chance to check things out before
installing them as my host OS.
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