[ale] A free alternative to VMWare and Win4Lin

[Robert L. Harris]

Can you use a belkin on a laptop?

  I have a Linux laptop which does most of what I need.  Recent
changes in my job now require me to use some windows tools but I won't
give up my Linux laptop.  I put vmware on the laptop (1.4Ghz) and crank
up VMWare with WinXP on it, do what I need to do then just suspend the
Windows when not in use.  Fast recovery should I need it in a meeting,
out of the way when I don't need it and easy recovery should I have to
install and test some software for some reason.

  In addition I use VMWare to do my school work which works with IE only
without having to dedicate a machine to windows.

Robert



Thus spake Courtney Thomas (ccthomas at joimail.com):

> I appreciate your reply and understand your motive, but I bought another 
> KVM in a similar situation :-)
> 
> Belkins are cheap and mine have been running about 5 yrs without any 
> problem.
> 
> Cordially,
> 
> Courtney
> 
> 
> attriel wrote:
> 
> >>Thank you for the clarification.
> >>
> >>I fail to recognize the merit of this idea of increasing complexity.
> >>Isn't Winders unstable enough without bringing down both ?
> >>
> >>Why not use a KVM switch and put both, but separate, on a local LAN ?
> >>
> >
> >Well, for instance:
> >
> >I'm setting up a test suite at the office.  B/c of the range of folks
> >visiting our pages (intelligent to idiot), I end up needing:
> >
> >Linux, OSX, Windows 2k, Windows XP, Windows 98.
> >
> >Oh, but I need htem patched and unpatched.  B/c we have a lot of idiots :o
> >
> >I started setting it up, but I ran out of the 6 ports I had available on
> >the KVM :o  So I'm looking to run virtual setups and stick it all on one
> >box instead :)
> >
> >--attriel
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> 
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