[desktop-discuss] Re: products i wish were available on Solaris x86

[Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland]

Garrett D'Amore stated:
< sunlist wrote:
< > Is it possible that Wine or Xen might meet your needs?
< 
< Xen might handle mine, but I have to reinstall my Solaris 10 with
< OpenSolaris (recent build) so I can use Solaris in dom0.  Wine doesn't
< help me at all -- I need NetBSD much more often than I need Windows.

  Haven't seen this mentioned incase people don't know about it, but
  there looks to be a qemu project about to be started on opensolaris.
  It'll have the kernel accelerator of qemu as well, so not so slow :)

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=12865&tstart=0

Regards,

< 
<     -- Garrett
< >
< > Jerry Kemp
< >
< >
< > Vano Beridze wrote:
< >> In my company I'm the only guy who uses Solaris Express on the
< >> Desktop. Everybody uses Windows. I develop web apps and our customers
< >> mostly use IE. When linux was my primary dev machine I used vmware to
< >> host Windows and test my apps how they work in ie. Also there are
< >> many apps that require Windows and sometimes you need to use that
< >> apps. In my case VMWare is highly needed. I use qemu now but it's
< >> slow to death.
< >>
< >>
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