> D'oh! There goes my idea of playing a lot of really cool > Windows games > on the stability of Linux. Oh well, still be good to play around with > WMWare/Win4Lin/Wine and see what trouble I get into. You can play some Direct X games under Wine. Starcraft works, and I'm pretty sure someone got Diablo 2 working also. > -----Original Message----- > From: Fjorn [mailto:fjorn at mninter.net] > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 5:08 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:23742] WINE vs. VM-Ware > > > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > > the sucky part of VMware is that games that use > DirectX won't work > > on it. :( so you need a separate box to play Diablo 2 on. :( > > > D'oh! There goes my idea of playing a lot of really cool > Windows games > on the stability of Linux. Oh well, still be good to play around with > WMWare/Win4Lin/Wine and see what trouble I get into. > > > I use it at work for development environments; so I > can maintain a > > clean environment to work with. best trick that VMWare > allows you to do: > > 1. install your OS and apps > > 2. shut it down > > 3. tar & bz2 all the files in the appropriate VMware subdirectory > > (all 4 of them.. nice and simple). > > 4. when your original install gets too crufty, blow it away > and untar your > > saved disk image. :) > > > > Sorta like a Ghost image then. Cool none the less, far better than > reloading the whole system over again. > > > Shawn > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org >