Re: Running WindowsXP on debian

2009-10-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 05:24:14PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > FWIW the commercial version is free (as beer, no source > code) for evaluation, personal use and academic use [1]. > The ose edition is free (as in freedom) and open source. And packaged in Debian as 'virtualbox-ose' (just to b

Re: Running WindowsXP on debian

2009-10-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Nate Bargmann wrote: > I'll add my vote for the virtualbox-ose package, assuming you have a > legal copy of XP to install, of course. If you need USB support then > you'll have to try the commercial version. FWIW the commercial version is free (as beer, no source code) for evaluation, personal u

Re: Running WindowsXP on debian

2009-10-06 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I'll add my vote for the virtualbox-ose package, assuming you have a > legal copy of XP to install, of course.  If you need USB support then > you'll have to try the commercial version. Thanks everyone for suggestion, I had never heard of vir

Re: Running WindowsXP on debian

2009-10-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
I'll add my vote for the virtualbox-ose package, assuming you have a legal copy of XP to install, of course. If you need USB support then you'll have to try the commercial version. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this

Re: Running WindowsXP on debian

2009-10-06 Thread Michal
Nuno Magalhães wrote: Maybe VMWare or VirtualBox? i'm not sure if a VM suffices for your requirements. HTH I second this...how powerful is the machine? This option would be easy to do, I run many different OS's in VMWare for testing/development/evaluation purposes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Running WindowsXP on debian

2009-10-06 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Mathieu Malaterre schreef: Hi there, I need to run a WindowsXP system for software compilation using M$ compiler (don't ask). Right now wine is not a solution (*). I cannot run a solution based on kvm extension as non of the computer I have access to have it. So AFAIK I only have two solution:

Re: Running WindowsXP on debian

2009-10-06 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Maybe VMWare or VirtualBox? i'm not sure if a VM suffices for your requirements. HTH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Running WindowsXP on debian

2009-10-06 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I need to run a WindowsXP system for software compilation using M$ compiler (don't ask). Right now wine is not a solution (*). I cannot run a solution based on kvm extension as non of the computer I have access to have it. So AFAIK I only have two solution: qemu and XEN. Could anyone p