wine virus story

[Lei Zhang]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:49 PM, L. Rahyen <research at science.su> wrote:
>         Separate user is enough if you don't have world writable files in your
>  system. And of course user for such purpose shouldn't be in group(s) that
>  have write access to your personal or system files.
>         If you are unsure use VirtualBox ( http://virtualbox.org/ ) - it's free and
>  open-source, or VMWare ( http://vmware.com/ ) - it's not free.
>         On Debian (and probably Ubuntu) you can install VirtualBox by running "sudo
>  apt-get install virtualbox".
>         I do not recommend to use QEmu because it's less user friendly than
>  VirtualBox (BTW, VirtualBox is based on QEmu).
>

VMWare workstation is not free, but you can get both VMWare server and
VMWare player at no charge. It's  available from the Canonical
repositories as well:
http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/pool/partner/v/vmware-server/