> 2) Did anyone used virtual machines on XP to have the Linux host
running in a Virtual Machine for ucLinux compiling/debugging? Is that
> recommendable or better have a dual boot computer (XP / Linux)?
I have used a virtual machine for uClinux development with good
results - though in my case it was hosted on Linux, not Windows.
Provided your host has reasonable performance and memory it is
probably a much more satisfactory method than either dual boot or Cygwin.
I have used Cygwin, an Ubuntu VM under Windows XP, and Ubuntu running
on bare metal. I found compiling under Cygwin to be rather slow, and
the differences with "real" Linux to sometimes be a pain. The VM
worked fine, but was both sluggish running Eclipse and slow to
compile. Ubuntu on bare metal is great, but having to reboot to get
back to your Windows tools might be inconvenient.
My co-workers and I eventually settled on a shared fast build server
running Ubuntu. We use Xming with gnome-panel to make the
applications show up on our Windows desktops (Eclipse, terminals,
etc). We have the Windows Start button and task bar at the bottom
and the Ubuntu Applications/Places/System menus a the top (via
gnome-panel). You can start applications from either one and they
show up as normal applications (no Linux desktop as with a VM) and
work fine with dual monitors. You can cut and paste between them
(make sure nothing is selected in the Linux apps before trying to
copy text from Windows to them).
For reasons I don't understand, starting Linux apps using gnome-panel
works better in several ways than starting them directly using Xming
(responsiveness, fonts, pop-up forms working correctly, etc). The
main application windows are resizable but even when using
gnome-panel, some pop-up forms aren't resizable. Occasionally I will
run an app directly on the shared server so I can set the sizes of those forms.
Steve
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