Kevin-- I tried VMWare and it worked fine for a lot of things, but not for my hotsyncing.
Thanks anyhow, Warner Warner White 12 Harbor Watch Road Burlington VT 05401 H: 802-863-0182 C: 802-318-0956 www.warnerwhite.org ________________________________ From: Kevin Thorley <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 1, 2009 10:58:54 AM Subject: Re: Xen, kvm, Bochs Its not open source (gasp!) but it is free (as in beer)... give VMWare a shot. Specifically VMWare Server. I've had great luck using this for work, running on both windows and linux. No issues at all with USB ports Kevin On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Warner White <[email protected]> wrote: > Ron-- > > You suggested I run VirtualBox, and I'm doing it. It's easy and works > well--except for the very clunky USB connection I finally succeeded in > making. But I need one for trying to HotSync my PDA and so far I haven't > been able to. So I'm trying Xen or other virtualizers. I've discovered that > Xen, kvm, and Bochs are all available through Synaptic Pkg Mgr. So I've > installed, only to discover that they don't show up in Applications or > System Preferences or Administration. I take that to mean I have to start > them from command line--but I don't know how to do that. And perhaps there > are some dependecies I still need. The web sites look very complicated--line > after line of command line stuff. > > I did DOS years ago and I can do simple command line stuff, but I still have > a long way to go. > > Suggestions? > > Warner > > Warner White > 12 Harbor Watch Road > Burlington VT 05401 > H: 802-863-0182 > C: 802-318-0956 > www.warnerwhite.org >
