Re^2: Writing perl on VMWARE that runs on WinXP (Linux as guest OS)

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Re^3: Writing perl on VMWARE that runs on WinXP (Linux as guest OS) by mpeppler (Vicar) on Nov 11, 2004 at 15:54 UTC
Well - sure, you can run linux inside a VMware virtual machine. I use VMware so that I can have multiple linux distributions on the same machine to test different systems. Michael	[reply]
Re^3: Writing perl on VMWARE that runs on WinXP (Linux as guest OS) by waswas-fng (Curate) on Nov 11, 2004 at 16:13 UTC
Yes you can run perl linux apps on a rh distro in vmware on an xp box. But you really have to ask yourself if this is actually "supporting my code running on windows xp" or rather if you are just forcing the users of your code to run it in linux -- albeit in a vmware guest instance on a xp box. -Waswas	[reply]
Re^3: Writing perl on VMWARE that runs on WinXP (Linux as guest OS) by osunderdog (Deacon) on Nov 11, 2004 at 16:12 UTC
Well, Anything is possible with a computer.^tm Whether it's realistic or not depends on your requirements and contstraints. You've only told us what your constraints are. *"Look, Shiny Things!"* is not a better business strategy than compatibility and reuse. OSUnderdog	[reply]

Anything is possible with a computer.tm