Re: development on windows

[Jonathan Kulp]

Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
> VirtualBox is Open Source and runs on Linux hosts, so I would recommend 
> this.
>
> Creating an OS that can be used is a matter of creating a disk image.
> One approach is to install ubuntu on the virtual machine, then install 
> the additional tools, and share the resulting virtual disk.

Can't all of the tools be installed from inside the virtual 
machine? That's how I've been doing it on my virtual XP machine 
(using Sun VirtualBox OSE). The virtual machine has access to my 
networking hardware so I just download the software and install it 
inside the virtual machine.  I got Lilypond, MikTex (a LaTeX 
package), GNU Make, Geany editor, and lots of other stuff 
downloaded & installed inside the virtual XP box. I would think 
the same could be done with a virtual Linux machine but I haven't 
tried it.  I have to say that using a virtual machine is the best 
solution I've found for testing stuff on Windows. I used to have 
to reboot to a different partition or try to steal time on my 
son's XP laptop.

Jon

> Bert
>
> Graham Percival wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:26:41PM +0200, Bertalan Fodor 
> > (LilyPondTool) wrote:
> >  
> > > > - does anybody have VMware (commercial version) and feel like
> > > >   making a small Linux installation which has all the required
> > > >   software?  Potential contributors would be able to run this
> > > >   in the free VMware version.
> > > >         
> > > Why VMware? There are free alternatives, like MS Virtual PC, Sun 
> > > VirtualBox.
> > >     
> >
> > Never heard of them, but then again, I haven't looked at
> > virtualization since about 10 years ago (when I was trying to run
> > the old Ultima computer games on Linux).
> >
> > If you're familiar with these, which would you recommend?  And can
> > we create the OS and run the OS with the free versions?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > - Graham
> >
> >   
>
>
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