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Hello Mark, |
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2010/1/26 Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> |
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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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AFAIK, vmware-workstation is the not license-free, so you'll have to invest |
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some money in it. You might want to try vmware-player (if you want to go the |
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vmware way). It is free, but it comes with restrictions. The major |
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disadvantage is - you can't create your own images, you can only "play" |
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them. |
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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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> Is this the purpose of vmware-player? (which doesn't seem to have |
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> fetch restrictions...) |
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Many sites (like this one: http://www.filestube.com/v/vmware+windows+image) |
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offer you ready-to-go vmdk images. Google will help you find a lot of sites |
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like this one. |
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> |
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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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There are (at least) three alternatives: VirtualBox ( |
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http://www.virtualbox.org , http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/VirtualBox ), kVM |
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( http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page , |
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http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KVM ) and Qemu ( http://www.qemu.org/ , |
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http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/QEmu ) |
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In my opinion, VirtualBox is a very good (and open source) alternative to |
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VMWare, and if all you need out of the virtualization software is to be able |
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to run TradeStation, I'd definitely go for this one. |
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kVM and Qemu can be a bit confusing for a beginner (in virtualization), and, |
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although they can offer better performance than vbox, I don't think they're |
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worth the hassle for your specific needs. |
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> For now I'm working from this list of documents and the index in |
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> the upper right: |
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> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/VMware_Workstation |
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> Thanks! |
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> - Mark |
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Hope I helped |
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Marko Obrovac |
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http://www.linkedin.com/in/doorman |
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