Re: development on windows

[Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)]

VirtualBox is Open Source and runs on Linux hosts, so I would recommend this.

Creating an OS that can be used is a matter of creating a disk image.
One approach is to install ubuntu on the virtual machine, then install the additional tools, and share the resulting virtual disk.

Bert

Graham Percival wrote:

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:26:41PM +0200, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
  

- does anybody have VMware (commercial version) and feel like
  making a small Linux installation which has all the required
  software?  Potential contributors would be able to run this
  in the free VMware version.
  
      

Why VMware? There are free alternatives, like MS Virtual PC, Sun VirtualBox.
    

Never heard of them, but then again, I haven't looked at
virtualization since about 10 years ago (when I was trying to run
the old Ultima computer games on Linux).

If you're familiar with these, which would you recommend?  And can
we create the OS and run the OS with the free versions?

Cheers,
- Graham