I currently use a Windows 7 Home Basic. I need to run a certain application, which is, as of now not supported, i.e. compatible with/by W7HB. I tried downloading Virtual PC with XP mode, which does not support W7HB. Hence, I have installed Fedora as a dual boot, as there exists a separate edition of the application for Linux. As I am new to Linux CLI, I would like to install a version of XP in Fedora, i.e. via Virtual XP, assuming it supports. However, I am not able to find any suitable article for the same. Any suggestions...???
The easiest way to do this is to use VirtualBox.
There are 2 options:
run W7HB as the 'host' and install VirtualBox.Then install a guest operating system such as Fedora or WXP inside virtualbox.
OR
run Fedora as the host and install VirtualBox. Then install a guest operating system such as W7HB or WXP.
Be warned that if you install Windows in any form in a virtual machine you will need a Windows installation key. This may require a phone call to Windows support.
There are other solutions - VMWare, KVM, ... but IMHO VirtualBox is the simplest
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I'm moving an existing VxWorks 6.9 build system from Windows to RedHat Linux. In theory this should be easy but it seems that if I install VxWorks 6.9, from the same CD, on Linux then the dcom-2.3 library (and a couple of others) are not installed - installing from the same CD on Windows does install them.
Anyone know what I am? This is a cross-compiler environment for an embedded system so I can't see any reason that the installed libraries should be different between the two host systems.
I am attempting to install VMware Tools on VMware Workstation 7.1.6 on my Linux Redhat host machine. I have searched for a source to download but have been unsuccessful. Can anyone provide a link to where I can download VMware Tools for Linux Redhat OS?
I am trying to install VMware Tools so I can run a repair on a Windows 7 VM that has a corrupted Windows Boot File causing an error to be displayed when I attempt to power on the machine.
I am running VMware Workstation 7.1.6 x64 and the file I am attempting to repair with built in utility command on VMware Tools is Windows 7 x64. Please let me know if anyone has experienced a similar issue and if the VMware Tools utility command works to repair/restore corrupted or missing Windows Boot files.
vmware tools came up with workstation only, you can right click on VM menu, you can install,
Generally it will not automatically install the tools, it will mount an iso like cd rom to the vm,
you need to mount it and extract the tar file, then run the vmware-tools-install.pl file
I have been trying to install that but it produces an error saying that the processor is not compatible with x64. I tried VMWare Player and Microsoft Virtual PC. I also read about disabling virualization but it's not working.
By enabling virtualization from the BIOS setup of the main machine it worked!
Problem installing x64 guest OS with vmware Server
You can try with this, it reveals some very useful informations http://support.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003x64
I received a src archive from a friend who develops Qt apps on Linux on Kdevelop IDE. Is it possible to load the Kdevelop project in Windows in some IDE ? Is there a Kdevelop port on Windows without Cygwin/Msys etc ? Are there any workarounds or I should I have to install Linux and take charge?
Update : I visited the page as mentioned in the below answer, but there's no Kdevelop package in the KdeWin installer . See here
KDevelop 4 will also be available on Windows (together with a lot of other KDE4 software). It is currently in beta, but you can download a Windows installer. The installer also lets you install other KDE4 software and should come with the QT development files you will need to develop QT applications.
AFAICT, there is no port to Windows of Kdevelop4 and Kdevelop3 was run with cygwin - which, IMHO, is not really a robust solution.
It would probably be easier, and better, to install a Linux distro in a virtual machine and go at it from there. If you don't need access to Windows, you could just install a Linux on a separate hardrive and/or partition.
Install linux on virtual machine such as vmware or virtual box.
I am planning to move my vmWare's Virtual Machines from a Windows host to a Linux host (Ubuntu). It is possible to run vmWare Server in a Linux host that does not have the graphical environment (does not have X)?
I just wonder how the graphical setup of Windows/Linux guest work in this case.
Thanks in advance for your time.
Victor Marquez
Just install it on Ubuntu Server and install it via apt-get. Here's a good walkthrough
http://users.piuha.net/martti/comp/ubuntu/en/server.html
I did this on my development server and connect to it using the graphical client on my Windows machine. I have no gui installed.
the X libraries are required during the compilation and installation of VMware Server on Linux.
virtualbox has some command line tools that you can use and I don't believe it requires an x installation. You should compare the features and make sure that's what you want though.