Rene Peinthor wrote:
I'm wondering why nobody yet suggested Virtualbox[1].
It has a free non commercial license and is a very good and fast Virtual Machine.

You can have almost all Linux distributions as guest and it can also install the guest system on a native hard drive to avoid the use of 2 file systems. And by the way it's very easy to use.

[1] http://www.virtualbox.org/

Good suggestion. I suppose this one is worth a try. I will check it out. But, it has one small thing not in its favor. Just as many people will not use Virtual PC because it is a Microsoft Product, Virtualbox is a Sun product, now, and that turns some people off. Sun talks a good story about contributions to free and open source*, but they don't always measure up to their own hype. IMO. YMMV.

--Mark Allums**

* Although, Virtualbox is GPL'd.

** I suppose a lot more of this type of discussion, and we should take it to a different list or forum. It's kinda got off-topic, which is about setting up a build environment for Rockbox. No longer appropriate for Rockbox-dev.

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