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Do this periodically as well, before installing new software or updating Windows.
Running Win4Lin
Launching Win4Lin is simple enough. From the shell, type winpro. You can also use the
SUSE menu; Win4Lin Pro is located under Utilities, More Programs. This will bring up the
virtual machine (see Figure 11.4).
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FIGURE 11.4 The Win4Lin Pro environment puts a complete Windows 2000 or XP virtual
machine at your disposal.
Install your Windows applications as you would normally in Windows. CDs will not
always launch the installation program, but you can open Windows Explorer to access CD
contents.
Running Windows Applications with VMware
VMware offers a plethora of products designed primarily for enterprise customers to run
and test applications and operating systems in a virtual machine environment. (hence
the VM). Two of these products are of interest to the openSUSE user. VMware Server is
designed as a server machine that ???abstract(s) processor, memory, storage and networking
resources??? across different VMs/operating systems, according to the company website.
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