Andy Burns

On 27/11/2007 17:54, jasee wrote:

> You can't run any linux distros on any of Ms's virtual machines.

not true
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/vir...stsupport.mspx

jasee

Sheridan Hutchinson wrote:
> jasee wrote:
>> I'ver just been there, Coldn't find a mention of Linux support for
>> Virtual PC.
>>
>> Are they 'officially' supported? There's mention of all versions of
>> Windows ans even OS2 but not linux, Virtual; server (free as well)
>> but runs on W3K talks about 'forthcoming support' for Suse and Red
>> Hat but not yet. Of course it doesn't mean it won't work in practice.
>
> Installing Linux on MVP generally works, although maybe a couple of
> quirks exist that are easily fixed in the guest OS.
>
> While I suspect Linux will never be an 'officialy' supported OS, to
> business and commerce it can be really, really important for have
> linux for some really old 'killer-app' that they just still depend on
> so I'm sure Microsoft engineered MVP to support it, otherwise people
> would just use VMWare or something similar.

It's suprising that it works so well, Linux support on Vmware is quite
restricted in it's own way (that's with Windows as the host); it's well
supported down to point release level (but some points aren't).

jasee

Andy Burns wrote:
> On 27/11/2007 17:54, jasee wrote:
>
>> You can't run any linux distros on any of Ms's virtual machines.
>
> not true
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/vir...stsupport.mspx

Yes, thanks it's already been mentioned. This is for virtual server and is a
fairly recent development. The disadavantage of virtual server is it
required W3K or above to run on. The OP was querying whether he should run
linux as a guest on XP or XP with linux as a guest, so having to buy a new
opersting system to run them both might be a bridge too far :-)

Andy Burns

On 27/11/2007 17:54, jasee wrote:

> You can't run any linux distros on any of Ms's virtual machines.

not true
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/vir...stsupport.mspx

jasee

Sheridan Hutchinson wrote:
> jasee wrote:
>> I'ver just been there, Coldn't find a mention of Linux support for
>> Virtual PC.
>>
>> Are they 'officially' supported? There's mention of all versions of
>> Windows ans even OS2 but not linux, Virtual; server (free as well)
>> but runs on W3K talks about 'forthcoming support' for Suse and Red
>> Hat but not yet. Of course it doesn't mean it won't work in practice.
>
> Installing Linux on MVP generally works, although maybe a couple of
> quirks exist that are easily fixed in the guest OS.
>
> While I suspect Linux will never be an 'officialy' supported OS, to
> business and commerce it can be really, really important for have
> linux for some really old 'killer-app' that they just still depend on
> so I'm sure Microsoft engineered MVP to support it, otherwise people
> would just use VMWare or something similar.

It's suprising that it works so well, Linux support on Vmware is quite
restricted in it's own way (that's with Windows as the host); it's well
supported down to point release level (but some points aren't).

jasee

Andy Burns wrote:
> On 27/11/2007 17:54, jasee wrote:
>
>> You can't run any linux distros on any of Ms's virtual machines.
>
> not true
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/vir...stsupport.mspx

Yes, thanks it's already been mentioned. This is for virtual server and is a
fairly recent development. The disadavantage of virtual server is it
required W3K or above to run on. The OP was querying whether he should run
linux as a guest on XP or XP with linux as a guest, so having to buy a new
opersting system to run them both might be a bridge too far :-)

Andy Burns

On 27/11/2007 17:54, jasee wrote:

> You can't run any linux distros on any of Ms's virtual machines.

not true
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/vir...stsupport.mspx

jasee

Sheridan Hutchinson wrote:
> jasee wrote:
>> I'ver just been there, Coldn't find a mention of Linux support for
>> Virtual PC.
>>
>> Are they 'officially' supported? There's mention of all versions of
>> Windows ans even OS2 but not linux, Virtual; server (free as well)
>> but runs on W3K talks about 'forthcoming support' for Suse and Red
>> Hat but not yet. Of course it doesn't mean it won't work in practice.
>
> Installing Linux on MVP generally works, although maybe a couple of
> quirks exist that are easily fixed in the guest OS.
>
> While I suspect Linux will never be an 'officialy' supported OS, to
> business and commerce it can be really, really important for have
> linux for some really old 'killer-app' that they just still depend on
> so I'm sure Microsoft engineered MVP to support it, otherwise people
> would just use VMWare or something similar.

It's suprising that it works so well, Linux support on Vmware is quite
restricted in it's own way (that's with Windows as the host); it's well
supported down to point release level (but some points aren't).

jasee

Andy Burns wrote:
> On 27/11/2007 17:54, jasee wrote:
>
>> You can't run any linux distros on any of Ms's virtual machines.
>
> not true
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/vir...stsupport.mspx

Yes, thanks it's already been mentioned. This is for virtual server and is a
fairly recent development. The disadavantage of virtual server is it
required W3K or above to run on. The OP was querying whether he should run
linux as a guest on XP or XP with linux as a guest, so having to buy a new
opersting system to run them both might be a bridge too far :-)

Andy Burns

On 27/11/2007 17:54, jasee wrote:

> You can't run any linux distros on any of Ms's virtual machines.

not true
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/vir...stsupport.mspx