[GLLUG] Windows and Linux mixed environment

Caleb Cushing xenoterracide at gmail.com
Tue Nov 14 09:41:33 EST 2006


I can do wine... although I am weaker on other virtual machines. I
have no Idea when I would have time to learn xen sources. I do have
some experience with vmware. although it sounds as though that may not
be desired. I'm going to assume that the other's isn't needed.

On 11/13/06, eduardo cesconetto <eduardo at cesconetto.com> wrote:
> I never tried Parallels on Linux, but on my iMac Core Duo it runs any
> OS very well using virtualization. Ubuntu and Windows XP are as fast
> as my Dell D600 (P-M 1.5Ghz), I also run (for fun) Dos 6.22, Windows
> 3.11 and OS2 Warp under Parallels with no problems.
> On Nov 13, 2006, at 10:29 AM, Alec Warner wrote:
>
> > Charles Ulrich wrote:
> >> Caleb Cushing wrote:
> >>> I've been thinking of doing a series of presentations on doing a
> >>> mixed
> >>> windows and linux environments. I would probably do these mostly
> >>> from
> >>> a desktop/home user perspective... Although I've no doubt it could
> >>> apply to enterprise. I would include (or try to):
> >>>
> >>> * Dual Booting.
> >>> * Networking... Samba
> >>> * Wine
> >>> * Virtual Machines
> >>> * CygWin and other things to make windows more nix like/friendly.
> >> I for one would definitely be interested in Wine and other virtual
> >> machines
> >> besides VMWare.
> >
> > If you have a new Core Duo chip or a newer AMD one (not sure which
> > AMD chips have the virtualization stuff in em') you can run Xen on
> > it and then run any OS (including windows) in a domU natively (no
> > evil Xen + windows = fun hacks).  I haven't tried this as I'm poor
> > and don't have any hardware with built in virtualization stuff :(
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