Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-29 Thread Pete Theisen
On Friday 29 June 2007 14:20, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > >>> I hope you didn't lose your religion, or your soul. > >> > >> After I had kqemu working with acceleration, it quit working. > > > > Hi Leland! > > > > Went over your head. 666 is the mark of the devil. > > It is also a way to set Li

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-29 Thread Leland F. Jackson, CPA
Pete Theisen wrote: > On Friday 29 June 2007 10:16, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > > 1) I had to manually create the /dev/kqemu and set permissions to 666 >>> Hi Leland! >>> >>> I hope you didn't lose your religion, or your soul. >>> >> After I had kqemu wor

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-29 Thread Pete Theisen
On Friday 29 June 2007 10:16, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > >> 1) I had to manually create the /dev/kqemu and set permissions to > >> 666 > > > > Hi Leland! > > > > I hope you didn't lose your religion, or your soul. > > After I had kqemu working with acceleration, it quit working. Hi Lela

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-29 Thread Leland F. Jackson, CPA
Pete Theisen wrote: > On Thursday 28 June 2007 19:17, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > >> After hearing about qemu, I decided to take a look at it. I have it up >> a running and it reminds me of dosemu, which I ran under Linux about the >> time windows 95 came out. >> >> I hit a few bumps gettin

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-29 Thread Leland F. Jackson, CPA
Pete Theisen wrote: > On Thursday 28 June 2007 19:52, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > >> The catch with the free VMware Player is you need a purchased copy of >> VMware workstation to first create the virtual machines. Once the >> virtual machines are created, they can be distributed allowing a

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Paul Hill
On 6/29/07, Steve Ellenoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a big fan of qemu, but ever since vmware has been free, I've had > no use for it, and can't see why anyone else would either, especially > since vmware is still better, faster, and far easier to setup than qemu. Well QEMU supports emulati

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Pete Theisen
On Thursday 28 June 2007 19:52, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > The catch with the free VMware Player is you need a purchased copy of > VMware workstation to first create the virtual machines. Once the > virtual machines are created, they can be distributed allowing any user > the run them. > > Th

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Pete Theisen
On Thursday 28 June 2007 19:17, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > After hearing about qemu, I decided to take a look at it. I have it up > a running and it reminds me of dosemu, which I ran under Linux about the > time windows 95 came out. > > I hit a few bumps getting everything running, but after

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Pete Theisen
On Thursday 28 June 2007 14:42, Chet Gardiner wrote: > Download AVG Free and install it on the Win2K partition. > > Works Great -- Great Price... > > http://www.grisoft.com/ Hi Chet! I will. Still keeping it off the web, though. > > > > Hi Chet! > > > > Thanks for that input. I will keep it off t

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Leland F. Jackson, CPA
The catch with the free VMware Player is you need a purchased copy of VMware workstation to first create the virtual machines. Once the virtual machines are created, they can be distributed allowing any user the run them. The GSX Server is free, but I haven't had time to do anything with it.

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Steve Ellenoff
I'm a big fan of qemu, but ever since vmware has been free, I've had no use for it, and can't see why anyone else would either, especially since vmware is still better, faster, and far easier to setup than qemu. At 08:17 PM 6/28/2007, you wrote: >After hearing about qemu, I decided to take a loo

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Leland F. Jackson, CPA
After hearing about qemu, I decided to take a look at it. I have it up a running and it reminds me of dosemu, which I ran under Linux about the time windows 95 came out. I hit a few bumps getting everything running, but after I got the acceleration working it's not bad. Still, It's not nearly

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Chet Gardiner
Download AVG Free and install it on the Win2K partition. Works Great -- Great Price... http://www.grisoft.com/ Pete Theisen wrote: > On Thursday 28 June 2007 12:17, Chet Gardiner wrote: > >> Win2K didn't have snitchware built into it. >> >> That crap didn't come in until XP.. >> >> Use it an

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Paul Hill
On 6/28/07, Pete Theisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 28 June 2007 12:04, Tracy Pearson wrote: > > I just asked one of the people I knew "was" using the VMWare Player. He > > said "QEMU is fast enough, and it seems to have more cool features, so I > > stopped messing with vmware" > > >

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Pete Theisen
On Thursday 28 June 2007 12:17, Chet Gardiner wrote: > Win2K didn't have snitchware built into it. > > That crap didn't come in until XP.. > > Use it and enjoy! Hi Chet! Thanks for that input. I will keep it off the web, however, because anything M$ gets infected or compromised while you are dow

RE: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Tracy Pearson
You're welcome, I didn't do much but a few finger strokes on the keyboard. I do that all day anyway. Tracy -Original Message- From: Pete Theisen Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:15 PM Hi Tracy! Thanks for the legwork! Looks like I can do what I want with QEMU, then. Just run over to th

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Pete Theisen
On Thursday 28 June 2007 12:04, Tracy Pearson wrote: > I just asked one of the people I knew "was" using the VMWare Player. He > said "QEMU is fast enough, and it seems to have more cool features, so I > stopped messing with vmware" > > I thought I'd ask if the NIC could be blocked from being seen

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Chet Gardiner
Win2K didn't have snitchware built into it. That crap didn't come in until XP.. Use it and enjoy! Pete Theisen wrote: > Hi Everybody! > > Years ago I purchased Windows 2000 Professional with the intention of > installing it on my own personal use machine. I scoured the web for the best > pri

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Leland F. Jackson, CPA
I'm running VMware workstation version 5.5.4 build-44386 on FC6, and it works great. I use VMware mostly to run Windows XP Pro as a virtual machine under FC6. VMware recently came out with a new upgrade, (eg version 6.0), but I can't find a real advantage to spending the $99.00 for it, so I p

RE: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Tracy Pearson
I just asked one of the people I knew "was" using the VMWare Player. He said "QEMU is fast enough, and it seems to have more cool features, so I stopped messing with vmware" I thought I'd ask if the NIC could be blocked from being seen by the guest OS in QEMU. He says yes, and added to use "-net n

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Pete Theisen
On Thursday 28 June 2007 11:07, Tracy Pearson wrote: > Though I run XP and Virtual PC, I understand VMWare Player runs faster than > QEMU. The testing I did with the VMWare player allowed access to some > external devices, and you can prevent the NIC from being included. Hi Tracy! VMWare player i

RE: [NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Tracy Pearson
Though I run XP and Virtual PC, I understand VMWare Player runs faster than QEMU. The testing I did with the VMWare player allowed access to some external devices, and you can prevent the NIC from being included. I know to developers that run some flavor of linux, and have W2K setup in the VMWare

[NF] Windows 2000 Professional under some open source virtual machine.

2007-06-28 Thread Pete Theisen
Hi Everybody! Years ago I purchased Windows 2000 Professional with the intention of installing it on my own personal use machine. I scoured the web for the best price and got it for $64 shortly after XP was introduced. Then all this FUD started about it not being "authentic" so although I insta