Re: [Hampshire] Virtual Box

On 12/11/2007, john lewis <johnlewis@???> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:21:17 -0500 (EST)
> Andy Random <andy.random@???> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, john lewis wrote:
> >
> > > and I can now run XP Pro again
> > >
> > > thanks all
> >
> > I'm not sure you should be thanking people for that John....
> >
> > :)
>
> mebbe not but if I am to persuade my wife to give up her w2k box and
> move over to linux/kde I need to be able to run a certain piece of
> windows software.
>
> And that is the dratted Resource File Viewer the LDS provide for
> viewing their Data CDs which, unlike other genealogy data CDs which
> give you pdf files, are in a proprietary format.
>
> I can install the Viewer application from CD but once it is running
> it cannot see the CD drive so I cannot "register" the data CDs with
> the app.
>

Have you tried wine? wine can access CDs correctly. There are two ways
of configuring CDs in wine, one is more compatible than the other.
If RFV does not run correctly, you might just need a few .dll overrides.

wine is also quicker than virtualbox.