Quoth Bob van der Poel at 2008-11-10 09:29... > Thanks for that suggestion. I've tried it in the past with wine with no > success ... but before I replied to you suggestion with a "been there, > done that" I figured I'd try it again. Amazing, it now works! Well, not > 100% ... but, honestly, it works better in wine than it did running on a > laptop with real XP. Figure! That happens. Wine keeps getting better and better and yes, it can run faster than native Windows. When I need to use Windows, I run WinXP under VMWare. Funny thing is that this doesn't seem a lot slower than when I was dual-booting. I don't know how VirtualBox stacks up against VMWare. I've heard comments about issues with USB in VirtualBox but can't believe they'd still be around if they were ever there, not with it being under active development and coporate support (Sun.) Last time I checked, VirtualBox had a much greater list of supported hosts and guests than VMWare. But for one-off applications, Wine (or CrossOver Office) is a much better bet for performance than virtualising the whole OS. Cheers -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
