From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NZreM-0003qj-Oi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:04:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1BC7E0B04 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:04:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f47.google.com (mail-pw0-f47.google.com [209.85.160.47]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1229FE07B7 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:55:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj10 with SMTP id 10so3532475pwj.26 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:55:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=YvpZg8IIip8rjv+x+CNFIzNmXDtrQzTYmcEdN3rfjTc=; b=EA7eNNpYdMXe3kwEWpMwEwMWEhDO4VdBwKGggv2sYHu44fsQor8yOjSdjV8tDAOTxa InVQC+0m429gL7j+rAnuTfFn726Anulux8+YJZZswjiXi4wNT80BdzqFN6dUuORqtHpw 1mKpEAx2kzcfOsXJbA/O3P4Lw4CHJyY4ok8WQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=hQ64gy4Ai9TagB5xYCk6Gal81n9pw34JSc3AHY/I90s32DJzh3MYPwAhiaSe3jazSG ibKBogUOKTH1AlQMznWHNFuClm2UTkryuZNk9b5hsuiag3gveLPeh4iv2nncDblKLFVD agXyti6GvfI3gjrXz2NvDkHuYoxygTgQX7w1U= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.2.41 with SMTP id 41mr2344749wfb.121.1264535742579; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:55:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:55:42 -0800 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1001261155p400fd174nc90742c8fe2e5da3@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: e54aeeef-b043-434d-9ad8-a1f2df5d10b5 X-Archives-Hash: 018a0f79d26d313593a00528c5823115 Hi, OK - with the new machine up and running well enough to do some work I really need to get some sort of virtualization going to see if I can get around the fact that XP cannot be installed on this machine. (at least not easily) I need to run TradeStation and I'd like to try under Linux but Wine is ABSOLUTELY not an option. I ran XP & TS on my older system (5 year old 3GHz AMD64) but it's been a long time since I tried it. The performance was just OK. I expect this machine may be acceptable. To anyone familiar with this subject a few questions: 1) If I go the VMWare route is it vmware-workstation that I want? 2) Are there any prebuilt XP images that would save me the hassle of installing Win XP and just allow me to validate with my existing keys? Is this the purpose of vmware-player? (which doesn't seem to have fetch restrictions...) 3) In some ways the most important question is what are the Open Source alternatives and how easy are they to set up? For now I'm working from this list of documents and the index in the upper right: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/VMware_Workstation Thanks! - Mark