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Title: VirtualBox
Post by: rdc on July 01, 2009

You guys may already know about this, but in case you don't:

http://www.virtualbox.org/

Run an alternate OS as a guest on your computer. This may a way for me to cross compile my apps.

Title: Re: VirtualBox
Post by: Shockwave on July 01, 2009

That is a cool ap :)

Title: Re: VirtualBox
Post by: mind on July 01, 2009

that is fucking ace! excuse the language.. bloody brilliant! :D K+ for the find

Title: Re: VirtualBox
Post by: rdc on July 01, 2009

Thanks. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks darn cool. Any suggestions on a Linux distro to use with this that will work with FB and GCC?

Title: Re: VirtualBox
Post by: mind on July 01, 2009

no clue.. im running msdos 6.22 on it now and it works pretty well.. just have to figure out how to mount virtual drives so i can access all of my data :)

Title: Re: VirtualBox
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on July 02, 2009

I wonder if this will allow me to cross compile my Blitzmax applications...

Title: Re: VirtualBox
Post by: Jim on July 02, 2009

->rdc - lots of people like Ubuntu.

Title: Re: VirtualBox
Post by: rdc on July 02, 2009

Thanks Jim. I'll look into that.

Title: Re: VirtualBox and similars...
Post by: Moroboshisan on July 04, 2009

does anybody give this http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/0/e/30e87f07-d6b3-4ab3-a93d-a17814ed8b4b/32%20BIT/setup.exe (http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/0/e/30e87f07-d6b3-4ab3-a93d-a17814ed8b4b/32%20BIT/setup.exe) a try?

32Bit WinXP-SP3 needed (there is a 64Bit version too: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=28C97D22-6EB8-4A09-A7F7-F6C7A1F000B5&displaylang=en (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=28C97D22-6EB8-4A09-A7F7-F6C7A1F000B5&displaylang=en))

I must admit that the free version lacks some really useful features... but.. hey, it's free from Microsoft! (I do not endorse MS in any way, i simply like [maybe] useful software).

 ^-^

Title: Re: VirtualBox
Post by: Jim on July 05, 2009

I've used both VirtualPC and VMWare before.  VirtualPC was easily the best if the client OSs were Windows and VMWare was better for Linux clients.  The problem with both of them was that they seemed to use quite a lot of resources on the host even when they weren't doing anything.  That was a few years ago, perhaps things have got better.

I've seen the XP compatibility mode for Windows 7.  It's pretty amazing.  The apps look like W7 apps, and run in a window, but they're actually running under an XP VM.  They show in the start menu like other apps too.  Graphics performance is not that great.  I'm looking forward to seeing if VirtualBox's Direct3D passthrough layer actually works.

Jim