On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 10:15 +1100, Ken Wilson wrote: > Lisa uses ubuntu for some of her work and dual boots into windows xp > mainly for adobe/macromedia photoshop, flash, premiere, after effects, > director and sound forge. There is a bit she does on a mac as well. > Often there is something that needs a visual tweak but she is back in > linux. GIMP she finds hard as she knows photoshop and does not want to > learn a second way of doing things. Gutsy upgraded GIMP from 2.2 to 2.4 > which introduced some changes that were not liked so we tried GIMPshop > but it didn't do what she wanted. > > Wine has succeeded in installing and running but have not yet > extensively tested photoshop CS. Director, and sonic forge installed and > appear to work. Flash 5 installed but doesn't run. Premier installed but > looks dodgy on a brief look. Flash MX and after effects failed to install. > If these programmes could be run in wine or virtualisation then the need > to switch back and forward between Operating systems in the middle of > work flow would be removed. > > My question is what of the half dozen available virtualisation system is > going to be best for this collection of programmes? Does anyone have any > experience?
# apt-get install vmware-server vmware-tools-kernal-modules (or equivalent). I've got a note that you need at least kernel 2.6.20-16-386 I'm using vmware/xp/cygwin for the one legacy program I can't get rid of. It works flawlessly, although my requirement is not processor intensive so I can't comment on how good it would be with a complex photoshop rendering. I've noticed that some programs that work directly with the hardware (eg, monitor calibration) don't work in this context. That may be because I didn't try hard enough. The way I've got it set up I copy files between Linux and XP using ssh/rsync/scp but I'm sure that there are easier ways to do it. I like it the way I've got it because Windows is completely sandboxed. I've set up the virtual "network" so that Windows can't see past my LAN. the combination with cygwin is excellent. It means that I've got bash on windows. It might not be so useful for someone who is less geeky. > cheers > Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
