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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> 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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If you want to pay money, it works and is very easy to use. |
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vmware-server is free (but not open source?) |
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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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vmware-player lets you run an existing virtual machine but not create |
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one, IIRC. VMWare has a lot of "virtual appliances" on their website |
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which are pre-made virtual machine images for various purposes. |
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I don't think Windows is included. You'll probably have to install it |
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manually. However, Microsoft gives away free time-limited XP virtual |
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machine images (VirtualPC format; you'll have to convert it to the |
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format of your choice, vmware has some free tool to do this for |
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converting to their format), supposedly for testing for old Internet |
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Explorer versions but you can install anything you want in them. I |
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think they last for 6 months. You may be able to use some windows |
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key-changer software (magical jellybean?) to reactivate that image |
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with your own key. I don't know specifically which version of Windows |
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they give or which version you're licensed to use. |
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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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http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/TechComparison |
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It seems the most common choices I've seen mentioned are virtualbox, |
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xen, kvm, vmware, in no particular order. |
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