Consolidated logins windows/linux

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008, Collins Richey wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
>> On Saturday 29 March 2008, Collins Richey wrote:
>>  > Currently, for our engineering users, we're providing Linux boxes that
>>  > utilize Vmplayer to provide Windows XP as well. That has not proved to
>>  > be 100% reliable. Frequent hangs, and RHEL4 thus far has not provided
>>  > a kernel that supports the sound card in our current HP desktop boxes.
>>
>>  Have you ever tried  VirtualBox...   I used to use VMware (paid for version)
>>  and it worked so-so but I have found virtualbox to be better, particularly in
>>  the sound area...
>>
>
>I've used the open version of virtual box - no usb support. I
>understand the subscription version has usb support.
>
>OTOH, we're milking free software where we can, so ... I doubt  it.
>
>Our sound problem is a kernel problem. HP switched to a truly oddball
>card in our latest machines, and redhat RHEL4 is not forthcoming with
>support. The card probably works in RHEL5, but we have one or more
>proprietary apps that don't support RHEL5 yet.

Could you run the proprietary apps with VMWare under RHEL5 (or
perhaps CentOS 5)?

Bill
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