Re: A few questions about 10.2 and/or VMWare 5.x and/or MS Virtual PC
- From: Chris Cox <ccox_nopenotthis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:53:51 -0600
cat wrote:
I just got 10.2 up and running under VMWare 5.5.3 using XP Pro as a host.
A few questions for you wizards if you don't mind:
1. It seems that XGL isn't supported on VMWare as of yet - at least from
what I've read on the VMWare forums - has anyone had any success with this
or could you give me some pointers on some things to try to
perhaps get it to work?
Nope. VMware does have some Direct-X support (as weird as that sounds).
So while 3d in a Windows guest running on a Linux host is somewhat
possible, AFAIK, OpenGL is not.
2. Regarding the above question, does MS Virtual PC do a better job at
this?
Doubtful.
3. I've got another box dual booting with W2K and Ubuntu 6.10, but I"m
thinking of wiping that entirely and just loading 10.2 on it, but it's
only got an old ATI Rage Pro video card and 384 megs of RAM - will 10.2
suck on it and will XGL run at all?
No. And neither will Vista's 3d.
4. At some point in this lifetime, I'd like to give Windoze the heave ho
once and for all, but I've got apps I just can't leave behind (proprietary
stuff like ham radio and other comm gear software/Zire apps/etc.) - are
the above options (and maybe MS Virtual Server) pretty much what I've got
as far as setting this with both OS's without doing the dual boot merry
go round?
Especially with hardware devices, you'll simply need to test them
using a VMware guest OS or with native Linux drivers if available.
(assuming that you might be open to running Windows strictly inside
of a VMware guest).
To a much lesser extent, some Windows apps will run using wine or
Codeweaver's Crossover for Linux. Thre are some application
lists at winehq.com and codeweavers.com that might help.
5.Am I missing something or is the bottom line that some apps (like
Azureus/Java) won't be able to be installed with Yast2?
Not sure... but many apps are installable using things like smart...
smart is often times a much better installer than YaST/Zen.
6. Is there a way to point Yast2 at multiple FTP sites, etc. to get
different lists of installable apps?
Yes. In YaST you see a main entry for manipulating installation sources.
Search for repositories on opensuse.org for more info and a large listing
of repositories.
.
Any help on any of this would be really appreciated.
Thanks,
cat
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