Re: [Fed-Talk] Windows on the Mac
Re: [Fed-Talk] Windows on the Mac
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Windows on the Mac
- From: David Mueller <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:50:19 -0800
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Windows on the Mac
I haven't recently, but a couple years ago I looked into this with Wine on
Linux, and there was no capability for Windows apps to talk to a smart card.
- David
On 11/19/09 1:19 PM, "George Polich" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Has any testing been done with Crossover for use of CAC? Most particularly
> for applications such as signing DTS (Defense Travel Service)
> auths/vouchers, or signing Army Forms (uses ³Approve-It² app).
>
> ~~
> George Polich
> Army Public Affairs
>
>
> On 11/19/09 13:34 PM, "Wm. Cerniuk" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Another option is Sun¹s Virtural Box. We are using that on both Windows and
>> Mac for VM work. The nice part is that it is provided at no cost.
>>
>> Lastly, I am fond of the CrossOver approach. which removes Windows from the
>> equation and makes the application almost platform agnostic. It patches the
>> call backs to Windows and translates them over to Mac calls and back. If
>> windows says ³DrawButton(place,size, color, text) it translates it to the Mac
>> Cocoa / Carbon equivalent. Up side is that there is no Windows OS for
>> viruses
>> to attack in this model, in addition to having a significantly smaller
>> footprint in the system. (not 15GB if Windows hanging around to run Outlook)
>>
>> Best,
>> Wm. Cerniuk
>>
>> Ph: 703.594.7616
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 19, 2009, at 1:28 PM, James Alcasid wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> VMware and Parallels both have software to convert desktop PC systems to
>>> images that you can use. The FDCC images also come as .VHD so you may have
>>> to
>>> convert those, this is the federal baseline that most agencies will use. I
>>> am
>>> only familiar with the VMware conversion tools for this. You should contact
>>> your group that creates the enterprise images and go from there. Do you plan
>>> on binding these VMs to the AD network or are you just using the environment
>>> to run your custom PC applications?
>>>
>
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