A very good suggestion .. in fact, users can create a dedicated VMWare windows machine that runs on an external and portable usb 2 drive. Backups can be done by copying the vmware machine image and the virtual machine is isolated from the host computer. It is a great approach for a small businesses owner that wishes to isolate the family computer activities from their work computer.
<br><br>Similarly, if users on a windows computer wish to peek a look at Ubuntu, they can build a test VMWare Ubuntu machine and tinker with this instead or download a VMWare Ubuntu image to try out.<br><br>Many schools are already moving towards this kind of deployment for their file servers, even enabling a suite of different network operating systems to run together on the same box.
<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 25/04/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">victor rajewski</b> <<a href="mailto:askvictor@gmail.com">askvictor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> So far, Lenovo have sent three emails, from different manager-type people,<br>> who certainly do appear to be treating these issues as important. As the<br><br>Good to hear.<br><br>> machine, for business reasons, must run MYOB & Excell (so I can continue
<br>> to pay employees, and maintain their tax and super records) and also run<br>> Windows to log the till/cash-drawer system) to avoid problems (haha) one<br>> needs to stay with Windows if possible. Otherwise I'd be running unix in
<br>> a second. (The Lilo dual-boot (Win/Linux) from 1998 still never misses a<br>> beat). However, I will keep the lists informed regarding Lenovo progress.<br><br>I have recently started using vmware to run windows inside linux, for
<br>those occasions where I really need it, and the program doesn't run in<br>wine. That way you also get around the driver problems. It is not much<br>slower than running on 'metal' (I think if you use a fixed-size drive
<br>rather than dynamic it is faster still). But most things I need run in<br>wine<br><br>vik<br>_______________________________________________<br>offtopic mailing list<br><a href="mailto:offtopic@edulists.com.au">offtopic@edulists.com.au
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