You can take a look at Sun's Virtualbox. Virtualbox is a virtual machine, (eg VM) that can be hosted in Linux. I use Virtualbox to run windows XP Pro as a guest OS, hosted in Fedora 11.
To create a windows Virtual Machine using Virtualbox hosted in Linux, you will need a licensed version of the windows OS, which would probably be found on the originally windows CD/DVD. You can use the CD/DVD to create the windows VM in Virtualbox, which will install similarly as it would on a dedicated computer. Once you have windows VM installed on the chosen Linux computers, you can network the windows OS as you normally would. Oracle recently acquired Sun, so technically Virtualbox is owned by Oracle, I assume. http://www.virtualbox.org/ Regards, LelandJ On 10/06/2009 10:57 AM, Dave Crozier wrote: > Raphael, > It was Paul McNett who did the pioneering work on VFP. I think that the > current state is unchanged to as it was a couple of years ago in that the > EULA in VFP9 forbids the use of VFP on a non windows O/S. VFP6 is different > and doesn't seem to have this restriction if you can live with it. > > As for the actual running, paul managed to get most features up and going in > conjunction with the "wine" project and for a while it was one of their top > apps to convert and test out fully on Linux. > > See his white paper at: > http://paulmcnett.com/vfp/wine/vfp-wine-whitepaper.pdf > > As usual the M$ guys don't want to see VFP on Linux due to purely commercial > reasons and in fact at one stage threatened Whil Hentzen with legal action > to stop him demonstrating it working under Linux. See the > www.Hentzenwerke.com website for more details. > > Dave Crozier > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Rafael Copquin > Sent: 06 October 2009 16:38 > To: PROFOXTECH > Subject: vfp9 and linux > > One of my clientes asked me these questions: > > If my company server is a Linux box, can your vfp9 application be installed > in it? > If the client machines also run on Linux, can just accessing the server app > from an icon work? > If so, which Linux dialect, or what patches should be used? > > The above are technical questions. > > What about the legal issues involved? > > I know that these questions were asked many times in the past, but I never > really bothered considering them because up until now none of my clients had > any problems with using Windows OS's. However, this particular new client > has all his other applications running on Linux and they will not install a > Windows operating system just to use my VFP9 app. > > Rafael Copquin > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
