A week later, I got a trouble ticket notification but it said that I have to be a registered user to access it. I base this on the fact that I wrote to them two months ago to ask about an educational discount so that I could buy a copy for my kids to use to play Reader Rabbit. Vmware seems to work pretty well, but at $189 it's a little too non-gratis for my purposes. ![]() I'd like to use a Free solution, but I'd settle for a non-Free program since it would be replacing a non-Free Windows 2000 machine that I keep around specifically for this purpose. I need to run a very short list of apps under Linux, namely Quickbooks Pro 2002 (don't say Wine - not even Codeweavers has gotten this particular program to work). It uses directdraw to draw windows, it properly handles the clipboard now which X-Win32 still can't seem to get right after an update they explicitly claimed would solve my clipboard problem, and it uses standard X tools like xhost for management. * Actually, cygwin's X server might have recently become the best X server around. If you are going to be running X clients locally, which you probably will if you install cygwin, you will want to add "DISPLAY=localhost:0" to your environment. In particular people with multiple displays will want to set another switch to support that, and there is also a switch to specify that all clipboard contents should be 8 bit (no unicode support.) It's not the fastest nor the best* X server out there, but it certainly does the job. There are some other switches you can set, see man XWin for more information. This runs the X server in a rootless mode that does not require a window manager (Windows is your window manager - this instructs the X server to in turn instruct windows to draw decorations around your X client windows) and which performs clipboard integration. Now create a shortcut which runs the following:Ĭ:\CYGWIN\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard Once you have cygwin installed, run a cygwin shell to set up your environment. Good luck finding a fast mirror, it is possible however. Run the cygwin installer from and set the "X11" part to "install", go into editors and turn off all the emacs packages :) and then click install. So if I were VMware, I'd offer VESA compatable video card rather than their made up one. VMware 3.1 though seems to crash with 2.6 series kernels but I suspect that has been fixed in newer versions. Both offerred excelent performance provided you had enough ram. If you dual boot windows and linux, you could boot into windows and then boot up your linux partition as well. The feature that is in VMware that I really missed in Virtual PC was the ability to boot from real hard drives. The network card is an AMD PCnet32 card which seems equally well supported (even solaris picks it up). For whatever reason the fake video card in VMware always seems to have some issues working in my experience. The network card was a DEC Tulip as well which is well supported. You can use the bootsplash kernel patch or just have a high resolution console. ![]() First of all since Virtual PC emulates a real video card (s3 Trio64 iirc) the Vesa framebuffer works. I found Linux easier to install on Virtual PC. Ok mine's slightly different, I've used the previous version of Virtual PC and VMware 3.1. To make it appear seamless to the user would require quite a bit of hacking, of course. Owning VirtualPC would allow Microsoft to implement an emulation layer similar to Classic on Mac OS X. Any classic Mac OS apps that aren't Carbon-compatible, and don't try to touch the hardware too much, should work fine inside Classic, because it's really a hacked up Mac OS 9. ![]() It's integrated into the OS so it doesn't run inside a window (except while booting), things like drag
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