[wplug] WINE & MAYA PLE

[Robert Blackwell]

VMare is really nice.
The VMware Technology Network (VMTN) Subscription,
http://www.vmware.com/products/vmtn/, is $299.00.





On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Patrick Wagstrom wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 15:34 -0500, Eric Cooper wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 12:29:12PM -0500, Matthew T. Engel wrote:
> > > I thought I might be able to help them out and set up MAYA PLE
> > > through wine...
> >
> > If you can't get the wine approach to work, you might have better luck
> > running it in a Windows virtual machine with vmware, qemu, or xen.
>
> The only real solution out of those is VMWare.  Thanks to the VMWare
> player, it might be easier than you think to get it going, especially if
> you're in possession of a site license for windows.  Use a single
> instance of VMWare Workstation to create a virtual machine, then copy it
> to each machine and run it using the free VMWare Player.
>
> QEmu may be appropriate, but I've not had good luck getting the
> accelerator to work and everything to run nicely.  Not to say it can't
> be done, but it's a lot of work.
>
> Xen is not an option for this purpose for two major reasons:
> 1. Until Intel and AMD ship chips with chip level virtualization
> technologies (Vanderpool and Pacifica respectively), stock windows will
> not work.  The Xen folks have booted Windows in Xen, but that's because
> they licensed the source code to Windows and did the work to
> paravirtualize it - without those modifications Windows in Xen is a no
> go.  The chip level virtualization is supposed to fix some of those
> issues, we'll see.
> 2. Xen still needs to be installed at the core of the system for dom0.
> This means that all the host linux machines would need to be
> reconfigured and repartitioned to take advantage of Xen features.
> Doesn't sound the most practical.
>
> We're hoping to have someone from VMWare come in to talk about their
> product (which is just cool on all levels, player, workstation, esx/gsx,
> and DataCenter) sometime in the coming months.  I *highly* recommend
> everyone show up and invite their friends when this happens[1].
>
> --Patrick
>
> [1] I've been to two previous VMWare talks and both times I was very
> impressed by their quality and informative presentations.  They don't
> just send out sales-droids to do the presentations, usually it's an
> engineer too.  Plus, in the past they've been known to give out free
> licenses to VMWare workstation to those in attendance.  Which is a
> pretty sweet freebie.  No guarantees for us though.
>
> _______________________________________________
> wplug mailing list
> wplug at wplug.org
> http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug
>