[dundee] Virtualisation, any wise words?

[chris wyllie]

Haha, I know. They said they have some kind of deal with MS. I think it's
really unfair as we don't do anything Linux until year 2 I think. We do
however have a couple of labs with Fedora 7 machines :) Thanks for the
warnings about security stuff, I had thought about it but not realised it
was necessary.

On 04/10/2007, Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> when you get your VM working with XP then try this
> http://autopatcher.com/
>
> well, I used to use this all the time, it was amazing, basically
> patch your system without you having to go and get patches from all of the
> place,
>
> unfortunately I  check the web site I find this..
>
> 'Today we received an e-mail from Microsoft, requesting the immediate
> take-down of the download page, which of course means that AutoPatcher is
> probably history. As much as we disagree, we can do very little, and
> although the download page is merely a collection of mirrors, we took the
> download page down. '
>
> you may be able to find a download somewhere else! :-((
>
> Looks like microsoft doesn't like people designing tools for
> their operating system.
>
> It's really weird that at university, they are completely 'sold' by
> microsoft, FORCING students to learn microsoft products at uni, what the
> hell?
>
> Shouldn't a computing degree be about computing, and not about corporate
> brand names from a corporation that activities are illegal?
>
> How long before our Uni receives a linux take down notice? hahahahaha
>
> Laters,
>
>
>
>
>
> *Daniel Lamb <daniel.lamb at dlcomputing.co.uk>* wrote:
>
> For a good free(opensource) av use moon secure av, I wouldn't necessarily
> bother about spyware as you are unlikely to surf, please moon secure will
> pick up a lot of spyware as well.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dundee-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:dundee-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of gordon dunlop
> Sent: 03 October 2007 23:42
> To: Tayside Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [dundee] Virtualisation, any wise words?
>
> I also must mention that on your Windoze virtual machine you have to put
> on security software e.g. avg anti-virus free, spyware blaster (free),
> spybot (free) and keep them updated. It is such a pain in setting up a
> Windoze virtual machine after installation, it takes a lot of time
> adding the extras, it is great putting on a Linux Mint virtual machine
> where all you have to do is the updates (All codecs are in the
> installallation). For the past few days I have been playing about with
> Revisor in Fedora 7 where you can make your own customised CD,DVD, Live
> CD/DVD by downloading separate packages from different Fedora
> Repositories, Fedora is the only distribution where you can define
> individual packages at installation using the Anaconda installer (unless
> someone tells me otherwise). With Revisor you can make an install DVD
> with all propriety codecs, like Linux Mint, or make a server only
> distribution within minimum software packages that can run out of the
> box. In fact you can make anything that you want to run out of the box,
> this intrigues me. I will probably be playing with this for the next few
> weeks.
>
> Gordon
>
> chris wyllie wrote:
> >
> > Basically, is it a viable option to set up a virtual machine running
> > winXP to do my windows development on?
>
>
>
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