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On 2015-05-20 09:28, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> On 05/20/2015 05:20 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:49 AM, John Lauro <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Why not run wine32 in a SL6 VM in SL7?  Personally, IMHO, why run anything
>>> critical that you can't run elsewhere (such as a brower, ssh client, etc) not
>>> in a VM?
>>
>> Or, for pity's sake, if you need to run Widnows based software, run it
>> in a Windows VM. Needing Wine32 on an SL6 or RHEL6 host suggests that
>> you have e Windows 32 requirment.
>>
>
> Hi Nico,
>
> Sure can tell you haven't had to do that.  Wait till you have VM's
> open and five or six other programs open at the same time and get
> lost trying to figure out what tool bar goes to what program.
> Not to mention sizing the placing the buggers on the screen.
> And then the @&$#ing clipboard stops working between them!
>
> If Coherence ever get going in Spice, a lot of that will go away.
> Probably not the Clipboard issues though.
>
> -T
>
> The Clipboard has an anxiety detector build in.  It
> checks you fingers for signs of stress and develops
> a crash commensurate with how bad you need to use the
> thing.

Have you tried VirtualBox's seamless mode?
{^_^}

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