linux on a windows box

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:25:09PM -0000, alex wallis wrote:
> So does it look like using vmware might be the only option I have?

No, vmware isn't the only virtual machine emulator out there. I can
think of at least 2 more, and there might even be more that I'm not
aware of.

The first one is qemu

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

which I myself didn't like that much, but others on here have
reportedly had great success using it to run gnu/linux under windows.

Another product which I personally use, and am for the most part happy
with is virtualbox:

http://www.virtualbox.org

Its major drawback is that the gui is for the most part
inaccessible. However, if you don't mind using the vboxmanage.exe
command-line management program, you can do everything from creating
to running to managing virtual machines. Also note that as of now,
though virtualbox supports presenting physical serial ports to the
guest there is a handshake problem which others including myself have
reported, but which innotek hasn't acknowledged so far. What this
means to you is that you can install a distribution of gnu/linux
inside virtualbox using speakup and a hardware speech synth, but for
long-term use, you'll want to setup software speech. I'm running
virtualbox on a system with a 1.1 GHz cpu with 512Mb of RAM, and it's
running nicely. The virtual machine I have configured in virtualbox is
a debian gnu/linux distribution running in text mode (no gui via
gnome/orca) which has 128Mb of RAM assigned to it, and it runs very
nicely for me using software speech pretty much all of the time, as
opposed to using a hardware synth. Hth somewhat at least.

Greg


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