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Hi i'm going to change my primary OS of choice over to Linux because i'm just so sick of pathetic Windows errors, although I still need Windows to run VS for my career. I know it's a long shot but are there any emulators available at all or any other options that will at least still give me the ability to create Windows programs using Linux?

Lee W, MVP

I tend to think your best bet is WINE, but I rather doubt it will handle Visual Studio. Most versions of Linux come with WINE.
http://www.winehq.com/

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mortar

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well i've got a p4 3.2ghz with 1gb of ram, would that be alright?

I'm still a Linux n00b so it may take me a little while to investigate how to install the above and get them working but i'll do it as quick as I can and give both suggestions a go.

NetworkArchitek

VMWare is very simple to install. You set it up, then create a virtual machine to install the OS. WINE is nice but there is no chance you will be able to develop in VS with it and it would be a nightmare to really set up. And yes I have run VMWare with less hardware than that and have not had much problems.

Éric Moreau

Do you know Mono? It is a .Net framework to run on Linux. See it at http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

xy8088

If you are sick of "windows errors" then I don't think that running windows under vmware on Linux is going to get rid of those errors. In the end you are just going to have a slower version of windows because it is running on emulated hardware rather than real hardware.

mortar

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xy8088, the whole point is to change my primary operating system. As i mentioned above I still need to run Visual Studio, and that's it.. nothing else.. It's not like i'm still going to install 100 applications in the Windows Installation, I will only boot it primarily for programming function.

mortar

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NetworkArchitek

No problem. Glad it works. =)

pribis

Just a quick comment for mortar. I have been using VMWare for about two months on RedHat 9. There is a lot of comfort in having XP as an application instead my os for a lot of reasons. Although Visual Studio works great I have run into a problem with embedded application dev. It seems that the emulator won't work inside of VMWare and, as far as I can tell, there is no solution. It apparently has something to do with the emulator running inside of an emulator.

I am not sure if you will be doing any such development, but I thought I would just pass that along.

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mortar

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Are you trying to emulate an OS inside your emulated XP?

pribis

Mortar,

Yeah. I mean, the pocket pc emulator that comes with ms products (embedded c++ and visual studio) do just that. And, as would be expected, don't work.

You know, it sure would be nice if someone had an emulator for the pocket pc in linux. I could just do the debugging on my pocket pc and the rest of the testing on an emulator. I sortof hate having to do ALL my testing on the actual machine.

Well, I only mentioned the ppc emu as a caveat just in case you had planned on doing any dev from inside of vmware on the ppc. Oh, and don't try to map any of your network drives from inside of vmware either. Bad things happened when I tried to do that.

Cheers,
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