[desktop-discuss] Running Windoze in a VM?

[Dennis Clarke]

> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the unfortunate postion of having to run some Windoze apps
> (stupid vendor thinks that Windoze is a good development platform...),
> but natuarally enough, I find Solaris to be a much more productive
> environment.  Looks like the best way forward would be to run
> Windoze in some sort of VM, a la VMware.  Assuming its possible,
> what's the best way of running Windoze as a client OS in a virtual
> machine, with Nevada build 70 (or newer) as the host OS?

The best way ?

Can't be done with Solaris.  Period.

You need VMware Workstation 6.0.0 build 45731 as a minimum and then you can
run whatever you need from a Windows perspective in virtual machines that
are supported. You need a decent ( what is that? ) Windows workstation to
run VMWare Workstation 6.0.0 or you need RedHat Enterprise Linux or
something similar. I guess KnoppiX could do it but I never tried.

As for Windows in a virtual machine on top of Solaris. I don't see it as
possible in a stable fashion.  Yet.  I did lots of tests going back years
now and never did get anything stable.  Sorry man but those are the facts.

Dennis