An alternative to VMWare is virtualbox (www.virtualbox.org) which is available
for free for several operating systems.
Tim
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:47:42PM -0500, Jim Fairman wrote:
> I think a good option would be to use VMWare Player to run a flavor of Linux
> within Windows (http://www.vmware.com/products/player/). Using VMware
> player, you can run any flavor of linux or windows within a window in your
> native OS (be it windows, mac, or any flavor of linux). I use it to run
> Ubuntu in a window inside of Windows 7 for CCP4, phenix, etc and it works
> pretty flawless so far. You can also run as many different linuxes as you
> want within your native OS (ie: If you want to try out Suse, Ubuntu, Red Hat
> and CentOS you can install all 4 of them on your system using VMWare within
> your native OS).
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:10 PM, David Roberts <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I have a quick question about linux for all. Is there anybody running a
> > windows pc with linux on a bootable cd or bootable drive/flash drive/???
> > that works for crystallography apps? I have a colleague who does molecular
> > dynamics calculations and he needs some conversion programs that are unix
> > based (not pc based - they just haven't been ported and that's not my area).
> > We have linux computers that he can use, but I thought in the end it might
> > be easiest if he could just boot up a linux flash drive to run his
> > conversion, then go back to his pc and windows. Something like "damn small
> > linux" or ??
> >
> > Any thoughts on this? Thanks
> >
> > Dave
> >
>
>
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