Virtual Linux Desktop (Gentoo/XFCE) on Windows with CoLinux

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 8:03 pm

That works.

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 9:26 pm

It's amazing how much work and fuss people will go through to avoid spending $100

If anyone is interested - VMWare is well worth the $100-$180 to get a full working copy.

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:44 pm

You assume incorrectly my friend. I did not go to this much trouble to save $100 (which I challenge you to find a legal copy of VMware for that price). Normally VMware sells for $179 per workstation. Additionally, I use coLinux on no less than 5 PCs both at work and at home â€“ and that is a little too much to pay making it well worth â€˜the work and fussâ€™. I only posted it here because I assumed other people could use it and benefit from it as well.

I explored working with coLinux because of a post in the Linux section for the forum: viewtopic.php?t=12145 Also, and more to the point, this is a complete distribution of Linux, ready to edit and compile PureBasic applications. You will not get that with VMware without some sweat equity.

I have posted in this thread that if you want a complete virtual environment, then purchase VMware or VirtualPC, however, this combination of coLinux and Gentoo I have put together will allow Windows users to get a feel for using Linux and PureBasic without the need to purchase a VM, install, tweak, etcâ€¦

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:54 pm

So Beach, have you got a solution for the reason I wasnt able to compile anything using SCite, or whatever it's called.

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:06 pm

Shannara wrote:So Beach, have you got a solution for the reason I wasnt able to compile anything using SCite, or whatever it's called.

I use F5 to compile. If you have not saved the file yet then you are prompted to do so. Just make sure you save the file in your home directory. SciTE will open a debug window and show you PB's compiler output. This is good for debugging. You can close this window by pressing F8.

We really need a good editor for Linux. SciTE is better than nothing but it pales in comparison to the PureBasic editor (or jaPBe).

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:52 pm

Beach wrote:You assume incorrectly my friend. I did not go to this much trouble to save $100 (which I challenge you to find a legal copy of VMware for that price).

Check your local auction site. In about 5 seconds I found several copies on eBay for ~$100.. That, academic versions, educational versions, etc.

Use what you want - I just thought I'd toss my $0.02 in as well

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 2:32 pm

Auction sites are not the first place I go when I am looking for software. While I have had good luck buying from eBay, I have also had very bad experiences as well.

Don't read me wrong, I value constructive criticism, but to me your post seemed only to suggest an alternative (which only addressed a portion of what I am doing with this solution).

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:51 am

Do you happen to have a step-by-step on how to map a winxp drive to this distro of linux? I cant get the script to map the drives, so i end up using a temp internet site to transfer files between oses.

This would rule though

Cant wait till PB OSX is final for some major cross-platform deving.

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:50 am

Here is the command I issue to connect to my XP system (which is the host for the virtual session):

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mount -t smbfs -o username=beach,ip=192.168.1.188,uid=1000 //stimpy/data /mnt/windows

The 'uid' part is specific for this distro as it refers to the user 'pbuser'. Now you should have read write access to the share as the normal user.

BTW: I have moved to a bigger server and can now host the archive myself. I also linked to Freak's server as well since the server I am on is in the US (hope you still do not mind Freak

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http://www.penguinbyte.com/software/colinux/

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:28 am

Where is the latest version of the CoLinux with purebasic? I am asking this because the version on www.penguinbyte.com/software/colinux is 294MB while the version on ShannaraCorp is 256MB????

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:03 pm

Please use the version listed on my site. I have posted a MD5 hash for comparison. I think Shannara had trouble with the ".rar" extension on his IIS server and he re-compressed the file so it would have a ".zip" extension. I can not imagine it would compress that much thought. I guess it is possible.

There have not been any updates, I had half wondered if there was any interest. I thought about redoing the image completly using a slim version of Gnome instead of XFCE and also upgrading the kernel to version 2.6. XFCE is nice and lite but I think people would prefer Gnome if it only taxed their download 50 more meg or so.

Let me know if you have trouble, the biggest challenge seems to be setting up the network bridge.

fsw · Post by **fsw** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:39 pm

Beach wrote:There have not been any updates, I had half wondered if there was any interest.

For my part I can say that I like what you did.

I've started to do the same with Debian.
Since I had to apt-get a lot of things like Samba, DHCP etc. I know how much work you put into to deliver a click&go package.

And I'm still not done yet.
Have to setup all this added stuff and apt-get X and so forth.

Because I'm not that proficient in doing that it takes me a lot of time.

Do you have by any chance a list of things that need to be installed and setup on a naked coLinux image

Keep up the good work

DeeCee · Post by **DeeCee** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:56 pm

As a (almost full time) Linux user, this is by far one of the most interesting and useful projects I've seen in quite a while!

the biggest challenge seems to be setting up the network bridge.

I'm using a wireless connection so I've been unable to get the network bridge working.... still though, I'm very excited about your project.

Good stuff.

-DeeCee-

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:02 pm

vmware: full version (previous version, actually) for 79 bucks, is nicely sitting on my desk and running on my comp, got it on a computer discount fair, where some shop was unloading their old software

DeeCee · Post by **DeeCee** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:32 pm

blueznl wrote:vmware: full version (previous version, actually) for 79 bucks, is nicely sitting on my desk and running on my comp, got it on a computer discount fair, where some shop was unloading their old software

I purchased what might be one of the very last VMware Express registrations before they discontinued it.. works very well running Win '98 in a Linux window.

In fact, '98 probably runs better on linux than as a native o/s.