problems with vmware: which virtual machine is best?

[rocky7x]

Hi,

I use Virtualbox for years and being very satisfied with it. No issues at all. Using the version from the Ubuntu repositories, not the one from Virtualbox site, though.

As for Office 2010, I use it as well, but via wine - it works flawlessly, so you can maybe try it that way.

As for the HP printer/scanner, I use them as well, via HP Lip - all functions work flawlessly once the proprietary plugin is installed. So if those are only 2 things you need the VM for, maybe you can ditch Windows for good.

The only thing I need VM for are SAP related apps, which are pretty much non-existent for Linux and wine cannot run them properly.

Thank you very much for responding so quickly!

I never succeeded with Wine and Office 2010 and I do not want to spend much time with that. If there is an "idiot-safe" step-by-step guide I might try again in the next weeks.

I have IRIS software for OCR for the HP scanner, that is my concern. I did not find any comparable Linux alternative that also improves scanned image AND OCRs it. Was in contact with Vuescan, but that does not run with Maui and my HP scanner so far.

Hi,

Installing Office 2010 in wine 1.8 is very easy, quite straightforward:
1. create a new prefix for office 2010 (must be 32-bit):

Code:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-office2010 WINEARCH='win32' winecfg

2. when it finishes, just close winecfg and mount the Office 2010 installation iso

Code:

sudo mkdir /media/office
sudo mount -o loop office2010.iso /media/office

3. install the needed packages

Code:

sudo apt-get install winbind winetricks

4. via winetricks install into that new prefix corefonts and msxml6

Code:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-office2010 WINEARCH='win32' winetricks corefonts msxml6

5. cd /media/office and start the office installation and install all components you need

Code:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-office2010 WINEARCH='win32' wine setup.exe

6. once the installation is finished, start the winecfg in the prefix, switch to tab Libraries and set riched20.dll to Native - this is needed for Powerpoint to work.

Code:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-office2010 WINEARCH='win32' winecfg

It will also create the links for all M$ programs in the start menu and also in the right click context menu So the usage is completely native - I use it without any problems for a long time already (when Libreoffice doesn't work )

As for the IRIS software, it should work excellent via wine as well, since it has Platinum support from wine - check this:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p...&iId=23406

The only prerequisite apparently is to use a 32-bit prefix (similar to Office 2010).