On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Mark Rathwell <mark.rathw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The sole alternative to an additional >> machine in that case is to perform major surgery on an existing one, >> involving a hard drive repartitioning > > VirtualBox is free: http://www.virtualbox.org/
Emulators? I hadn't considered those, mainly because they're generally expensive (comparable in some cases to buying fresh hardware, only without growing your nonvolatile space or cluster crunching power) and usually substantially deviate from the behavior of a real, separate machine in at least some cases. I'd think it especially likely that if there's a free one, there're a lot of software that won't quite work the same as on a separate PC, and will be outright broken in some cases. There's also the matter of OS vendors commonly inserting EULA clauses forbidding installing to emulated machines, of questionable encorceability (my reading of copyright law doesn't seem to indicate that "how the user uses some software post-sale" is one of a copyright holder's exclusive rights, though what do I know; I'm no lawyer), and backing that up with "features" of their "product activation" schemes (there's the enforceability, not in courts but in software), but that's moot in the case that the OS you'd be installing is Linux. MacOS is right out, though, even if VirtualBox can emulate Macintosh hardware. -- Protege: What is this seething mass of parentheses?! Master: Your father's Lisp REPL. This is the language of a true hacker. Not as clumsy or random as C++; a language for a more civilized age. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
