On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 10:29 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Steven Pasternak wrote: > > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Ali Helmy wrote: > >> > >>> Hey mates, > >>> > >>> Being in Microsoft's Imagine Cup - Project Hoshimi, I have to use C# & > >>> Visual Studio .Net, which forces me to keep WinXP on my other pc... is > >>> there someway I could operate these on my local FC machine? > >>> > >>> I have wine installed, so is there someway I can find a C# [.Net] IDE? > >>> > >> > >> Why not run Vmware or Xen and XP as the guest. They you can run your M$ > >> stuff in a Virtual machine on your FC HW. > >> > >> > > I suggest using Qemu. It is free and REALLY fast. To have improved speed > > (needed for XP), though, you need to compile it with kqemu support. > > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu > > FWIW, both Xen and VMware are free....and fast...and have great > community support. Been using VMware for 5 years now...even before it > was free. > > What's nice is that VMware is more then an emulator. You run the entire > guest OS as if it were on its own system. And, you can take snapshots > of your running guest. That way when you mess up an install of an > application your can *really* uninstall it. > Be aware that: A. VMWare server is still beta (Beta 2 was released two weeks ago) but it's reasonably stable. B. Running Windows on Xen requires either: 1. Modified (or should I say, Xenified) version of the Windows kernel (which you might have access to ;)) or 2. VT capable hardware. (Currently, only a limited number of Intel CPUs are VT enabled; AMD VT core are to be released within Q2). In short, VMWare Beta is the best option. Gilboa
