Re: [gentoo-user] Best virtual machine for my needs

[Florian Philipp]

Am Freitag 27 Juli 2007 22:40 schrieb Joshua Doll:
> A. R. wrote:
> > On 7/27/07, Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de> wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I need a way to use Napster or iTunes on Linux. (I don't like DRM but
> >> it's not my PC and not my decision)
> >>
> >> I think my best bet would be a virtual machine with Windows 2000 (I can
> >> spare the licence). The PC is an older AMD64 without AMD-V. Therefore I
> >> need something that
> >>
> >> a) is free or at least not expensive
> >> b) works without AMD-V and Intel-V
> >> c) works with Win2k
> >> d) simulates a CD recorder for burning the music (or do you know a
> >> better way to get rid of DRM again?)
> >>
> >> I hope my English was good enough to explain myself and you can help me.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >>
> >> Florian Philipp
> >
> > The only thing I can think of is "wine" (an emulator), which is in the
> > portage tree:
> >
> > emerge -va wine
> >
> > After that, there is a very good site for using wine with several
> > programs: http://frankscorner.org/
> >
> > I know nothing on how to avoid all that DRM fiasco.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > - AR
>
> There's vmare, kvm, qemu?, and xen that I can think of right off the top
> of my head. Wine might work but I wouldn't bet on it.
>
>
> --Joshua Doll

KVM needs Intel-V or AMD-V. Xen doesn't need it for Linux and BSD but needs it 
for Windows. 
Qemu and vmware might work but I just don't know if they can emulate a cd 
recorder and that's what I need to know. 

Wine does not work (iTunes doesn't start, Napster can't playback and is barely 
tested, Windows Media Player is tricky at best - everything according to 
appdb.winehq.org). Even if it would start, I don't think Wine supports the 
DRM framework of Win.