On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 7:21 PM, arnomedia <[email protected]> wrote: > I made a litle software with VB 2008 Express on Windows XP. I would like to > run it on another computer under Linux only. Please, how can do that > exactly? I am not confortable at all with Linux. I had read something about > VMware but I don't know if I need to install it. At present, I am under > Ubuntu 8.10, but I can change of distrib if you know another distrib that > could be better in my case. I have been doing a lot of research on the web, > but this does not help me enough.
VMware is a software virtualization layer that allows you to run entire operating systems on top of another operating system. In other words, you could use this to run Windows in a virtual machine on Linux. If you are doing this to run .NET applications then you do not need Mono at all. > Otherwise, is it possible to use Wine? I tried it with another software, > that certainly does not need NET Framework, and it seem easiest to use. Wine does not support .NET applications out of the box, but supposedly it does if you install the Windows version of Mono using Wine. Which is pointless except to test that scenario, since Mono runs natively on Linux. If Ubuntu supports it, you can try right-clicking the .exe file and choosing "Run with Mono." If mono is not installed then you need to install mono-1.0-runtime and/or mono-2.0-runtime using the package manager, then try it again. If that does not work then you need to open a terminal and type "mono path/to/your/app.exe". -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
