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I run a few virtual machines using qemu, which can be run without |
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hardware virtualisation support. One of the things it will happily do is |
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mount a physical CD drive, so you may be able to burn the music off in |
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this manner (using the -cdrom switch with /dev/dvdrw gives me a DVD |
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burner through the windows interface though I haven't actually tried |
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burning anything yet). |
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On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 23:11 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am Freitag 27 Juli 2007 22:40 schrieb Joshua Doll: |
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> > A. R. wrote: |
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> > > On 7/27/07, Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > >> Hi! |
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> > >> |
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> > >> I need a way to use Napster or iTunes on Linux. (I don't like DRM but |
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> > >> it's not my PC and not my decision) |
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> > >> |
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> > >> I think my best bet would be a virtual machine with Windows 2000 (I can |
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> > >> spare the licence). The PC is an older AMD64 without AMD-V. Therefore I |
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> > >> need something that |
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> > >> |
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> > >> a) is free or at least not expensive |
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> > >> b) works without AMD-V and Intel-V |
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> > >> c) works with Win2k |
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> > >> d) simulates a CD recorder for burning the music (or do you know a |
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> > >> better way to get rid of DRM again?) |
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> > >> |
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> > >> I hope my English was good enough to explain myself and you can help me. |
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> > >> |
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> > >> Thanks in advance! |
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> > >> |
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> > >> Florian Philipp |
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> > > |
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> > > The only thing I can think of is "wine" (an emulator), which is in the |
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> > > portage tree: |
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> > > |
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> > > emerge -va wine |
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> > > |
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> > > After that, there is a very good site for using wine with several |
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> > > programs: http://frankscorner.org/ |
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> > > |
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> > > I know nothing on how to avoid all that DRM fiasco. |
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> > > |
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> > > HTH |
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> > > |
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> > > - AR |
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> > |
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> > There's vmare, kvm, qemu?, and xen that I can think of right off the top |
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> > of my head. Wine might work but I wouldn't bet on it. |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > --Joshua Doll |
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> |
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> KVM needs Intel-V or AMD-V. Xen doesn't need it for Linux and BSD but needs it |
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> for Windows. |
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> Qemu and vmware might work but I just don't know if they can emulate a cd |
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> recorder and that's what I need to know. |
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> |
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> Wine does not work (iTunes doesn't start, Napster can't playback and is barely |
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> tested, Windows Media Player is tricky at best - everything according to |
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> appdb.winehq.org). Even if it would start, I don't think Wine supports the |
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> DRM framework of Win. |
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