Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 11:47:06 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: I've got a major question... Message-ID: <20190627114706.249409ce@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <20190627110340.d0d87cfe.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <c99b07c9-f497-b04e-ee40-a09aec33173d@sound-by-design.com> <CAHieY7RLfbTrqrUPnbTGA-bMnbmC7hYsmnPe%2B8Wb07NpWtsszQ@mail.gmail.com> <cdb5f984-d2cc-bf55-fb75-534b4aed48f9@sound-by-design.com> <20190626063443.51ad3f1b.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAHieY7Q-EZNYwKFXVUagMcfQj34g7nR4MXhpLYF7fS8hRmpYQg@mail.gmail.com> <20190627081518.9dc6f3c2.freebsd@edvax.de> <20190627091012.44fc65a7@archlinux> <CAMz_NCrQkNr7hQ6858GzDG9BvWkn1-S6oO10_fzbOCzM_BGdTg@mail.gmail.com> <20190627103701.7ea401b8@archlinux> <20190627110340.d0d87cfe.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 11:03:40 +0200, Polytropon wrote: >Sure, you can use a VM with "Windows" on an otherwise Linux or FreeBSD >system, but that doesn't really solve the problem. For me this approach at least does solve one problem. If the guest Windows starts misbehaving or a drive stops working, its easy to restore from the last working snapshot or backup. I once tried to restore a Windows 98 or XP install on bare metal, after a HDD gets broken, but it didn't work already without all that EFI stuff that might cause issues today. IIRC that time the problem was, that the new HDD wasn't the same model as the old one . If a hardware driver only available for Windows should be required, we are lost with either a VM or wine. For the ID card readers that could be ordered for free a few years ago in Germany, a Linux driver was available. That time I couldn't get an ID card reader working. I don't know if it would work today.
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