I need 2 windows softwares, how?

Pedia · 08-31-2005, 08:02 PM

I'm very happy with my linux and seriously don't want to use windows at all. The problem is that I do need some software which only runs on windows. I have replaced almost all windows software with similar open source releases but I do need Alias studio tools and Sibelius 3 and they don't work with wine. I've tried all the similar softwares available for linux but I think none of them can replace these two.
One (probably the only?) solution I know is to use vmware but I'm not sure howto I install windows without messing my already installed Gentoo. Hmm.. If I'm using vmware I don't actually have to boot in startup to windows and therefore change my grub settings, right? So what if I take my primary hdd away and install windows XP on another hdd. Then I would change my linux hdd back primary and put windows hdd in slave.

Could this work? Other suggestions?

Matir · 08-31-2005, 08:15 PM

You can just install WinXP through vmware.

Or, for that matter, qemu.

2damncommon · 08-31-2005, 08:27 PM

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So what if I take my primary hdd away and install windows XP on another hdd. Then I would change my linux hdd back primary and put windows hdd in slave.

Could this work?

That is exactly what I prefer to do.
You just need to check out the map-drive option of either Lilo or Grub to have the bootloader tell Windows the drives are the other way around when it boots.

Matir · 08-31-2005, 09:19 PM

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Originally posted by 2damncommon
That is exactly what I prefer to do.
You just need to check out the map-drive option of either Lilo or Grub to have the bootloader tell Windows the drives are the other way around when it boots.

Why do you need lilo or grub to boot it from vmware?

2damncommon · 08-31-2005, 09:47 PM

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Why do you need lilo or grub to boot it from vmware?

I assumed:
"If I'm using vmware I don't actually have to boot in startup to windows and therefore change my grub settings, right?"
was one question, and:
"So what if I take my primary hdd away and install windows XP on another hdd. Then I would change my linux hdd back primary and put windows hdd in slave.

Could this work?
was a seperate question."
One about VMWare and the other not.
Perhaps I am mistaken.

Matir · 08-31-2005, 10:55 PM

Oops. Perhaps it is I who is mistaken. Sorry for the confusion. I'll let the OP sort it out.

Pedia · 09-01-2005, 07:59 AM

I didn't know that you can install XP through vmware. Maybe I check other options too for windows emulation. Thanks for the help.
Sorry about my first post. English isn't my mother language and I was a bit tired too.

Booting XP through vmware is my main goal.

Matir · 09-01-2005, 09:52 AM

Yeah, vmware can create a virtual drive, and you can mount a REAL CD in there and boot the CD