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On 01/26/2010 09:55 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> OK - with the new machine up and running well enough to do some |
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> work I really need to get some sort of virtualization going to see if |
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> I can get around the fact that XP cannot be installed on this machine. |
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> (at least not easily) I need to run TradeStation and I'd like to try |
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> under Linux but Wine is ABSOLUTELY not an option. |
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> I ran XP& TS on my older system (5 year old 3GHz AMD64) but it's |
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> been a long time since I tried it. The performance was just OK. I |
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> expect this machine may be acceptable. |
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> To anyone familiar with this subject a few questions: |
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> 1) If I go the VMWare route is it vmware-workstation that I want? |
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Yea, but the version in portage in a bit outdated. Current is 7.x while |
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portage has up to 6.5. |
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Note that workstation is not free (beer or otherwise.) VMWare Server is |
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free (beer), but last time I looked, it's not as good as Workstation. |
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VirtualBox is free (there's free beer version and free speech version too.) |
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All of the above are able to run XP, Vista and 7. VMWare Workstation is |
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the fastest (it runs the 64-bit version of Windows 7 at pretty much |
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native speed here; I can compare because I have W7 also installed for |
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real; I'm on a Gentoo/W7 dual boot system.) |
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> 2) Are there any prebuilt XP images that would save me the hassle of |
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> installing Win XP and just allow me to validate with my existing keys? |
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Illegally created ones, yes. |
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> Is this the purpose of vmware-player? (which doesn't seem to have |
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> fetch restrictions...) |
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VMWare Player is free (beer) is a cut-down version of Workstation. I |
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find it sucks because of the limited amount of configuration options and |
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crappy GUI. |
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> 3) In some ways the most important question is what are the Open |
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> Source alternatives and how easy are they to set up? |
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VirtualBox. Not as fast as VMWare, but should be fast enough. |