Easy virtualization

[WB]

On 4/9/2011 5:04 PM, Les Cargill wrote:
> So I have 16 bit apps I am still using and bought a new Win7 box...
>
> I imagine you can do this with any of the VMWare, WirtualBox
> or other offerings, but this is much less trouble than those.

I go farther back -- Windows on Linux ! Yeah. Check KVM/Linux - It is a
ass kicking mofo, bro.

I'm a UNIX/Linux throw back , so I run cygwin on just about everything.
Win7 was a pleasant surprise -- I used Longhorn/Vista for 1 day on a new
IBM 64bit box when it came out and *quickly* converted to XP/Pro X64 -
it was dog **** - so naturally when Win7 showed up I was reluctant.

[Les Cargill[_4_]]

So I have 16 bit apps I am still using and bought a new Win7 box...

VMlite.com is the least labor-intensive virtualization thingy I have
found to date. The VMs do not support PCI cards directly ( on Win7
64 bit in my case ) but you can run 16 bit Doze apps on the VM and this
is quite useful.

DOSBOX is probably sufficient for 16 bit DOS apps.

The also offer MyOldPC which allows you to buy a clean
USB drive, copy the executable to the fresh USB drive and then
run your old computer as a VM.

I imagine you can do this with any of the VMWare, WirtualBox
or other offerings, but this is much less trouble than those.

[Les Cargill[_4_]]

WB wrote:
> On 4/9/2011 5:04 PM, Les Cargill wrote:
>> So I have 16 bit apps I am still using and bought a new Win7 box...
>>
>> I imagine you can do this with any of the VMWare, WirtualBox
>> or other offerings, but this is much less trouble than those.
>
> I go farther back -- Windows on Linux !

Yeah, I had dual boot up between... Slackware or Redhat and Win95.
I no longer remember , this was about 1995. Problem is, I slowly
faded on Linux when all the audio stuff happened on Doze.

Blame CoolEdit :) That made Doze the indispensable tool for me,
and I still use CE96. CE96 has been a Vast improvement over all
upgrades...

> Yeah. Check KVM/Linux - It is a
> ass kicking mofo, bro.
>


Okay, since you volunteered :), it's not exactly a "30 minutes and
you're done" proposition, right? It expects hardware virtualization
support for one thing... there's also wubi. Which doesn't work,
nobody seems to really know why.

Dunno - I may well end up with a Linux as host, but right now it's
not happening...

The reason I posted this is so that people who have old
proggies can use them again. If you could stick your hand in the
same river twice and come up with a 64 bit version of an old
program, it would not be necessary. But you can't. People can't
leave well enough alone; it is human nature.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jjN-H62U64

> I'm a UNIX/Linux throw back , so I run cygwin on just about everything.
> Win7 was a pleasant surprise -- I used Longhorn/Vista for 1 day on a new
> IBM 64bit box when it came out and *quickly* converted to XP/Pro X64 -
> it was dog **** - so naturally when Win7 showed up I was reluctant.

I have so far been pleasantly surprised. I think that avoiding running
legacy 16 bit apps is a bit of an ouch, but ... VMs make it
less painful.

--
Les Cargill