[Wylug-discuss] Running Windows with VirtualBox

[Anne Wilson]

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On 13/02/12 17:23, Andrew J Cole wrote:
> Anne,
> 
>> On 13/02/12 16:43, Andrew J Cole wrote:
>>> Anne,
>>> 
>>> On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:53:38 -0000, Anne Wilson 
>>> <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I do have an XP DVD + license for a machine that is no longer
>>>>  used, so maybe I'll try to virtualise that.  As far as I'm 
>>>> concerned, I've paid for one license to run the OS on one 
>>>> machine and that's all I'll be doing.  Drivers may turn out
>>>> to be a problem, with hardware so much newer than the
>>>> system.
>>> 
>>> This (virtualisation) should be problem free with both VMware 
>>> Player and VB.
>>> 
>>> The virtual h/w maps between the generic drivers used inside
>>> the VM to the drivers on the real os.
>>> 
>> I did play around with virtualisation some time back, but it 
>> didn't solve my problems.  The real problem is that this (very 
>> expensive) software is dongle-protected, and getting linux
>> drivers for such dongles is harder than pulling hens' teeth.
> 
> Ah.  A quick Google seems to indicate that most dongle problems
> with VMs on Linux hosts are protection/ownership problems with the
> Linux drivers rather than the port functionality.  VMware
> Workstation appears more likely to work (out of the box) than
> VMware Player.
> 
At one point I had a conversation with someone from Aladdin (sp?), who
make the Hasp drivers used by the dongle for that version of software.
 He assured me that their dongles should work with Linux, but that was
as far as I got.  I just couldn't get any more information at all.
That was around 5 years ago, so things may have improved since then -
I'm just not holding my breath.

Anne

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