Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: > Xen won't work. AFAIK that requires kernel patches for the guest OS to > work under the Hypervisor. Trivial in an OSS kernel like Linux or the *BSDs > but, uh, a non-starter with Redmond kernels. I think the same goes for kvm. Just wanted to correct myself here. Pri

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
English is written in conversational order, not in random order as top posting would lead one to believe. Please adjust your quoting accordingly. http://learn.to/quote On Wednesday 19 March 2008 02:48:08 am iena unlike wrote: > This is absolutely not TRUE. Why ? > Listen me: wine can install man

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Steve Lamb wrote: On Wed, March 19, 2008 8:27 am, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Sins of a Solar Empire does NOT run flawlessly, it sometimes locks up. Currently updated to the latest patch for the game, that might have something to do with it. Very playable, if annoying. You say this a

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-19 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, March 19, 2008 8:27 am, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Sins of a Solar Empire does NOT run flawlessly, it sometimes locks up. > Currently updated to the latest patch for the game, that might have > something to do with it. Very playable, if annoying. You say this as if it were a problem w

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-19 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, March 19, 2008 2:48 am, iena unlike wrote: > This is absolutely not TRUE. Why ? No, it is absolutely true. You just ignore what Paul wrote. > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm really surprised people are over-engineering this as much as

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
SNIP As for myself, I was just answering the question. BTW, the newest game I have "Sins of a Solar Empire" is pretty high spec and works out of the box with wine. I just tested it today. Works with out flaws. HTH UPDATE: Sins of a Solar Empire does NOT run flawlessly, it sometimes lo

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-19 Thread iena unlike
This is absolutely not TRUE. Why ? Listen me: wine can install many games...buthow many games wine can run correctly ? example ??? an old game as starcraft don't run in BATTLE.NET and many games don't run so nice. So, if you tell me that play with wine is good without sound without graphics wit

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Nuno Magalhães wrote: > At the moment the only use i have for XP is for games, which i seldom > play anyway. I have Half-Life 2, Quakes 1, 2 and 4, Soldier of Fortune > 2 and Thief 3... Mostly shooters which usually are demanding as far as > graphics and framerate go. I have a lot of guests so occa

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Damon L. Chesser wrote: > As for myself, I was just answering the question. BTW, the newest game > I have "Sins of a Solar Empire" is pretty high spec and works out of the > box with wine. I just tested it today. Works with out flaws. One of these days I'll have to sneak back into my Ubuntu

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Nuno Magalhães wrote: Thanks for all of your suggestions. Elsewhere i've read that, having a regular dualboot, one could acess XP through Linux and have XP believe it was running the system instead of actually running within a window. Whatever means this is, it does use the dlls of the fat/ntfs

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-12 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Thanks for all of your suggestions. Elsewhere i've read that, having a regular dualboot, one could acess XP through Linux and have XP believe it was running the system instead of actually running within a window. Whatever means this is, it does use the dlls of the fat/ntfs partition. It has the ad

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008 03:03:36 pm Rich Healey wrote: I like to use virtualbox for my VM's, but games from within VM's can be tricky, are the games high spec? something like crossover for linux might be more suitable. I'm really surprised people are over-engineer

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 03:03:36 pm Rich Healey wrote: > I like to use virtualbox for my VM's, but games from within VM's can be > tricky, are the games high spec? something like crossover for linux > might be more suitable. I'm really surprised people are over-engineering this as much as they h

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-11 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Greetings, enjoy your breakfast. > > I have a 20GB partiiton with an OS that i seldom ever use. When i do, > it's to play games. My board's an Asus M2NPV-VM which has an onboard > nVidia GeForce 6150. The thing is i'm gonna rep

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-11 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 March 2008, "Nuno Magalhães" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Using virtual machines and emulators isn't unheard of, what i want > to know is how and how good. Can i have a full Debian system > running XP kinda like a chroot? Like

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-11 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:12:09 + "Nuno Magalhães" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, enjoy your breakfast. > > I have a 20GB partiiton with an OS that i seldom ever use. When i do, > it's to play games. My board's an Asus M2NPV-VM which has an onboard > nVidia GeForce 6150. The thing is i'

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Nuno Magalhães wrote: Greetings, enjoy your breakfast. I have a 20GB partiiton with an OS that i seldom ever use. When i do, it's to play games. My board's an Asus M2NPV-VM which has an onboard nVidia GeForce 6150. The thing is i'm gonna repartition and reformat the system, so i'm considering ge

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 07:12:09 am Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Using virtual machines and emulators isn't unheard of, what i want to > know is how and how good. Can i have a full Debian system running XP > kinda like a chroot? Like running in a window in the desktop? What > would i use? VMWare? Woul