Re: Which hardware synthesizer to buy?

[Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>]

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On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 06:00:04PM -0500, Chris Brannon wrote:
> I haven't had any luck with qemu or virtual box.
> I don't run any sort of X environment over here, and they want it.

Virtualbox doesn't strictly require X, since it can be used using the
vboxheadless interface. There was a bug report a while back in the
virtualbox bug tracking system, and the dependency for X when building
from source was removed as far as I know. I do see that debian's
virtualbox-ose package depends on X, and my guess is that it strictly
shouldn't, though I could see why it does, since most people probably
don't want to run using vboxheadless, in which case you do need X. If
you find that your distribution's virtualbox package depends on X, try
grabbing the tarball from virtualbox.org, and building from
source. Note though that I haven't yet used virtualbox on a GNU/Linux
host as of now, so this is based only on what I read on the vbox-users
list, and I do stand to be corrected.

> Bochs can run Linux, but it takes a long time to boot with the average live CD.
> This emulator is a good fit for people who are experimenting with small
> operating systems.  Want to hack on your very own toy kernel?  Bochs is
> definitely the ticket.

It's also good for people who want to run x86 software, (including M$
windows), on a non-x86 architecture, such as the old M68K macs
(assuming they're powerful enough to run bochs), or a Sun spark
machine, to name a couple, since bochs is a true emulator, and not a hypervisor.

Greg


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