[KLUG Members] Windows user with interest in Linux.

[Mark Bystry]

Here's a tip. I have opensuse 10.1 installed on my main desktop at home. it also doubles as my 
workstation. this is a dual-boot machine. i have winxp installed on my firs hard drive. on it i use 
suse 99% of the time. my wife also uses linux 90% of the time. there is are a couple applications 
that she uses that do not work in linux (nor is there a suitable alternative). she does not like to 
re-boot back and forth into windows and linux, especially just for one application. so i installed 
vmware server on suse and made a windows xp image. now she can boot the image an run windows right 
on top of suse without ever re-booting the machine. just one click of a hot key and she back and 
forth in windows and linux. this works really well and it's really stable. perhaps this is a 
solution for the times that you want linux all the time but need windows to run that special app.

save your gaming for real windows and us virtual windows for your productivity apps.

btw, i use samba in virtual windows to share files between my host suse and my guest windows. gotta 
love samba.