Running Windows Apps on Ubuntu 8.04.01

[SupraWez]

Hey All,

After messing around with Ubuntu 8.10 I ended up going back to 8.04.01 as there is no hardware support for my Radeon Mobility 9600 graphics adapter, lots of people having issues.

Anyway the Compaq NC6000 laptop is now running nice but for me to continue using this there are a couple of windows apps I need to get running.

* Lotus Notes
* Solaris ECU mapping software (not solaris OS from SUN)

Both apps require access to the network interfaces, the ECU software doesnt use ip but its own protocol and connection engine.

I see my options as follows :-

* WinXP Virtual Machine, not sure which virtual software to go for, looks like VirtualBox, Parallels and KVM are the main choices. Going this route I would use one of the small XP distributions like MicroXP or TinyXP.

* Wine, I have not actually tried this before but it looks ok.

Ideally I would like to be able to run the apps seperate on the desktop, ie not inside a VM, I have heard this is possible with certain VM software but I have no idea which one.


Any ideas?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Install the Linux version of Lotus Notes.
http://www.glump.net/howto/notes_8_on_ubuntu

 

[Skidilliplop]

WINE might work, a more reliable option would be a virtual machine, virtualbox is my personal preference for Ubuntu. The advantage of this is under the XP VM you can install the custom layer 3 protocol stack for the ECU gizmo. Using WINE this might prove tricky as althought the software thinks it's running in windows i suspect it uses the network adapter as is and you'd need a linux version of the protocol stack. This may or maynot exist.

 

[SupraWez]

Install the Linux version of Lotus Notes.
http://www.glump.net/howto/notes_8_on_ubuntu

Thanks for this.

I downloaded the latest linux client from IBM and it works a treat