Alex Mandel wrote:
Anyone try the new Free VMWare Server Edition yet. I haven't tried it for this purpose but I've run a knoppix disk in a VM in windows and it took almost no setup.
I thought I posted about this; I did get the free server, set up a (k)ubuntu system (ubuntu with kde installed), and have been using it to compile rockbox.
The KDE GUI works ok, but can get a bit slow, even though I give the VM up to 1GB of real memory (my total system real memory is 2GB). That, and linux's piss-poor handling of the wheel mouse* has led me to using samba and ssh to, rspectively, edit and compile.
*Yeah, yeah, linux can do no wrong. But windows lets me use the mouse wheel to scroll by page (as if I'd clicked the scroll bar gutter) ; linux only lets me use it to scroll by some number of lines. imwheel changes wheel scrolls to page_up/pg_down, but that moves the text insertion point as wheel as scrolling thescreen.
