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   From: MCR    
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   Subject: Re: Adding a Windows XP dual boot to an existing Ubuntu install?   
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   M. Hale wrote:   
   > On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:38:29 +0000, MCR wrote:   
   >    
   >> Either way I guarantee you will get fed up with rebooting your PC all    
   >> the time to perform functions in Windows.  My solution was to run    
   >> Windows in a Virtual Machine, thereby solving that particular headache.    
   >>    I know flight Sim X will not work, but try Wine with some games    
   >> installed on your C partition.  World Of Warcraft works as does Half    
   >> Life.  You have nothing to lose.   
   >    
   > I've been able to use Wine to run several apps that I'm used to using in   
   > Windows.  Wine is very impressive.   
   >    
   > When you say running Windows in a virtual machine are you talking about   
   > using VMware?   
   >    
   > Mike   
   >    
      
   I was a bit vague... sorry.  I use Innotek's VirtualBox to run XP in a    
   window. I have the printer drivers installed in the virtual machine (as    
   the Dell 962 does not work with Linux) and I print via that... crafty, a    
   fudge, but it works.  I also use VirtualBox to run programs that I need    
   to use that do not work with Wine.   
      
   I use Wine to play games in Linux, World Of Warcraft works fine, as does    
   half life.  I do this because rebooting into Windows is a P.I.T.A big    
   time.  I haven't got, nor tried FS X, but as it's heavily DirectX    
   reliant, made by MS and huge, I guessed it won't work with Wine.   
      
   HTH   
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