Emulate Linux on Winxp?
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| Hi! Is there a freeware program to emulate linux under win32? I'd just like to port my app over to it without having to install it. Grisu |
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| Check out this thread: http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=57850 Specifically this line: If you want to check it out, they have an 'embedded' version on the website that runs in Windows. |
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| This is really cool stuff. Though I'm a complete newbie to linux. I managed to download and run the distribution inside windows. Worked well. Though, get I get access to a hdd/ mount a hdd while windows is running? Or do I need to boot from a cd/stick? I just want to get bmx ide up and running, |
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| Generally there are two ways you can go about doing this. One is DSL embeded Linux, the other is VMWare Player. Now since you're a self-confessed Linux newbie, I would think playing around with VMWare Player and finding a suitable image, would be the lesser of two evils (the other would be messing around in /etc/fstab and aptitude trying to get all the mounts/packages you need). If you can find an Ubuntu WMware image, that would probably be very close to ideal (as far as BlitzMAX is concerned). |
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| "I'd just like to port my app over to it without having to install it." You dont need to install linux to run it, you can download a 'Live' CD which boots the OS straight from the CD, no permanent changes to your HD :) |
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| The problem for me is there are so many differemt distribution packages. And I don't know which way to go. Also if I run linux from a hdd. Can I then point to my hdd and install the bmx files? Third. EAAAAAAAAAK. I need to get my dsl to work under linux as well because there is no full distibution package for bmx1.20+magui. Ouch, this seems to be complicated for linux newb. Maybe, I should just ask someone to port it over for me.... |
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| I've no specific knowledge of Bmax use, but as another Linux n00b I've had nothing but good Linux experiences with Ubuntu - which is handy, since it's the distro most favoured for Bmax use, it seems. And yes, you can play with it (and other distros) with a Live CD, then you can 'mount' your windows HD with your Bmax stuff on it and read it from there. So.. uh... Ubuntu. Recommended - at least from a Linux perspective. I'd be more specific, but I'd hate to give you a bum steer due to my ignorance. Google loves you, though. :o) |
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