On 01/19/07 at 08:39 AM, garcher{at}wdn.com said:


>Can I install a VM with Linux or eCS as host on a stand alone
>(non-networked) box that may eventually have broadband access to
>Internet?

I've used VPC as ported to eCS by Innotek since it was a beta.  Running on
eCS 1.2R as the host, it will host eCS, Doze 98, 2K, or XP as a guest very
nicely.  It will host Linux, but only older versions.  I had Red Hat 7.x
running at one time, and Mandrake 9.x.  I've never gotten Mandrake 10,
Xandros, and I don't remember what else I've tried to install and run in
VPC.  Whether you want to use VPC, which you might get on eBay or from
someone who doesn't need it any more, depends on what you need to do.  VPC
has the limitations that it will not see USB devices nor will it see a
DVD, so if the Doze or Linux programs that you want to use need those,
you'll have to look elsewhere.

>Given the demise of Svista, I seem to have no other options but run eCS
>as a guest under another OS (unless I use the VM bundled with eCS:

I buy eCS because it's relatively stable, not subject to every virus ever
created, and doesn't have inscrutable interfaces like Linux.  I want my
host to be stable.  I never got SVista to work properly, so I still use
VPC even though I paid for licenses for SVista.  I'm very interested in
Innotek's latest Virtual Box, which promises to have USB.  They didn't say
anything about DVD, but there is adequate burning software for eCS.

>Which of the other OS' VM options is best:

>1. eCS 1.2 (Svista beta?) - I have a registered copy of eCS 1.2 but have
>   not intalled it yet, hence my interest in the VM software issue 2.
>Parallels (Linux/eCS - host/guest) (www.parallels.com) 3. Xen (in one of
>the various Linux distros and hope that it can run eCS as
>   guest). I've never seen comments by a Linux user running Xen with eCS
>as
>   guest.

If you like Linux, why don't you try Innotek's Virtual Box and run eCS as
a guest?  Innotek did a great job porting VPC from Doze.  The only reason
that project died was that Microsoft bought the original authors of the
program and killed the OS/2 version.

If you need Windows in your VPC, you may have to buy a copy of Doze2K or
XP.  Unless you just HAVE to have XP, I'd get 2K.

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Freedom  = k/Socialism
Crash Often?  Not with eCS.

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