On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Rahul Tidke wrote: > Hello! > > How can I use CentOS as a complete desktop OS? I want to run Autodesk > products on it like AutoCAD,Revit,3D Max,etc. Does Wine (winehq) support > running such software? No. > Can I use (KVM,Xen) virtualization to run Windows XP and all commercial > software on it? Does running XP in virtualization requires a license? KVM runs Windows just fine for me. Virtualization does not change anything about licensing. You still need a license for all the software, but, for Windows there might be different licensing models available to you when running in a virtualized environment. 3D software packages are often limited by the fact that under a virtual environment they are doing software based rendering. It will likely be the performance killer aspect of virtualization in your environment. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director HPC Coordinator Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com TEAMWORK There's power in numbers. Learn to work together.