PE apps on linux, alternative solutions when win4lin breaks

[Maxim Veksler]

Hello friends,

I've recently decided to give another take on running iexplorer on
linux because of http://openu.ac.il lectures.
I'm looking for as lightweight as possible solution to run IE & Office
2003 on Ubuntu 9.04.

I've tried Win4Lin because of the feature of opening just 1
application instead of a full virtual machine but the product* is
buggy and totally crashes. I have also tried WINE but this does not
work with the required ActiveX openu installs. Is there some other
virtualization solution (VMWare?, VirtualBox?, Xen? more...?) that
could provide the feature of opening single application as if it was
native?

What alternatives / creative ideas are there ?
All I need is Internet Explorer and Office so that I could view the
video lectures.


Thank you for helping,
Maxim.


P.S. * Note "Product", not "Project" - it's a commercial software.

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Cheers,
Maxim Veksler

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