From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IEaD0-0002jb-MN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:31:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6S0TijC029667; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:29:44 GMT Received: from vscan02.westnet.com.au (vscan02.westnet.com.au [203.10.1.132]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6S0Ol5x023997 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:24:48 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F57911DDDB for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:25:09 +0800 (WST) Received: from vscan02.westnet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vscan02.westnet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26328-06 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:25:08 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.1.55] (unknown [124.149.56.245]) by vscan02.westnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E26911E2FF for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:25:08 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best virtual machine for my needs From: Tim Allingham To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200707272311.34834.f.philipp@addcom.de> References: <200707272225.33410.f.philipp@addcom.de> <7e7f5e710707271336o364765ebqff80d959197a5af7@mail.gmail.com> <46AA5854.5020603@gmail.com> <200707272311.34834.f.philipp@addcom.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-6KJrunduD5/uF+bUAoxg" Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:24:28 +1000 Message-Id: <1185582268.4882.5.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 X-Archives-Salt: baf56f6c-1357-4d21-add2-43c3467885e0 X-Archives-Hash: dd77adec489ec4591854504ad5554da6 --=-6KJrunduD5/uF+bUAoxg Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I run a few virtual machines using qemu, which can be run without hardware virtualisation support. One of the things it will happily do is mount a physical CD drive, so you may be able to burn the music off in this manner (using the -cdrom switch with /dev/dvdrw gives me a DVD burner through the windows interface though I haven't actually tried burning anything yet). On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 23:11 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am Freitag 27 Juli 2007 22:40 schrieb Joshua Doll: > > A. R. wrote: > > > On 7/27/07, Florian Philipp wrote: > > >> Hi! > > >> > > >> I need a way to use Napster or iTunes on Linux. (I don't like DRM bu= t > > >> it's not my PC and not my decision) > > >> > > >> I think my best bet would be a virtual machine with Windows 2000 (I = can > > >> spare the licence). The PC is an older AMD64 without AMD-V. Therefor= e I > > >> need something that > > >> > > >> a) is free or at least not expensive > > >> b) works without AMD-V and Intel-V > > >> c) works with Win2k > > >> d) simulates a CD recorder for burning the music (or do you know a > > >> better way to get rid of DRM again?) > > >> > > >> I hope my English was good enough to explain myself and you can help= me. > > >> > > >> Thanks in advance! > > >> > > >> Florian Philipp > > > > > > The only thing I can think of is "wine" (an emulator), which is in th= e > > > portage tree: > > > > > > emerge -va wine > > > > > > After that, there is a very good site for using wine with several > > > programs: http://frankscorner.org/ > > > > > > I know nothing on how to avoid all that DRM fiasco. > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > - AR > > > > There's vmare, kvm, qemu?, and xen that I can think of right off the to= p > > of my head. Wine might work but I wouldn't bet on it. > > > > > > --Joshua Doll >=20 > KVM needs Intel-V or AMD-V. Xen doesn't need it for Linux and BSD but nee= ds it=20 > for Windows.=20 > Qemu and vmware might work but I just don't know if they can emulate a cd= =20 > recorder and that's what I need to know.=20 >=20 > Wine does not work (iTunes doesn't start, Napster can't playback and is b= arely=20 > tested, Windows Media Player is tricky at best - everything according to=20 > appdb.winehq.org). Even if it would start, I don't think Wine supports th= e=20 > DRM framework of Win. --=-6KJrunduD5/uF+bUAoxg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGqoy8zDi2M4U3QqIRAlAIAJ9+mK+FkFvD2uZ7A1TO3lD3bRLHqwCfWxdp JqOyDtJDWAAv/YkOsfE960E= =T23w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-6KJrunduD5/uF+bUAoxg-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list