Yes, I would think you would need a licensed install of whatever OS you want.
BT Tracy Johnson Ye olde fashioned text games at: 198.212.189.111 NNNN Mar 8, 2010 04:24:35 PM, CyberBoardML@yahoogroups.com wrote: VirtualBox requires a copy of Windows, no? --- In CyberBoardML@yahoogroups.com, Dale wrote: > > Tracy Johnson wrote: > > > I noticed the same scroll over issue under Ubuntu in WINE. No biggie > > for me, I have a Windows machine also. > > I thought Crossover is a commercial packaging of Wine? If that's true > then it doesn't surprise me that Crossover has the problem as well. > > The menu artifact is due to the way XtremeToolkit (from Codejock) > renders UI elements in off-screen bitmaps. Wine must process internal > Windows messages in a manner different than what XtremeToolkit expects. > > BTW... It's this toolkit that has prevented me from simply "open > sourcing" the Windows source code of CB. > > This will all be moot when the toolkit has been removed from source > code from the FOSS version and the current Windows version. > > Right now it might be cleaner to just use VirtualBox which is free > and runs Windows in a virtual session. I think VirtualBox also supports > seamless windows as well so CB should feel right at home. > > Dale >
