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Wed, 20 May 2015 09:37:54 -0700
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On 05/20/2015 04:58 AM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> Hi ToddAndMargo!
>
>   On 2015.05.19 at 20:29:12 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote next:
>
>> Despite Red Hat's assurance that EL6 will be supported
>> till 2020, I am finding a lot of stuff that Red Hat
>> is not willing to fix in EL6, but is going to or already has
>> fixed in EL7.
>>
>> I had SL7 on one of my machines for a while and I currently
>> have it in a VM on my main office machine.  I really like
>> it and think it is really well done.
>>
>> Except that there is a problem that can not be worked around:
>> no Wine 32.
>
> I believe we discussed it on this same list before and I showed you how
> to run wine in SL7 (in container with Fedora, using either
> systemd-nspawn or docker). Which is no-overhead solution, well basically
> this is only overhead of having a directory with base Fedora system in
> there.
>
> Specifically,
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scientific.user/7336
>
> (though by now you'd want to use fedora 21 repo for more up-to-date
> wine)

Docker would be a solution.  I am heavily into KVM and wanted
to stay with it.  Also Docker has all kind of security issues
and I wanted to avoid them, as I do penetration testing for
PCI (credit card security).

Does Docker do Coherence (seamless windows)?

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