From: Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists <tpo2@...>
Date: 2008-01-02T18:16:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows Ruby (was Re: Zed Shaw - Ruby has dodged a bullet)

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> 3. You do *not* have to buy VMware to run Windows on a Linux box
> provided your hardware has the recent enhancements that allow Xen to run
> unmodified guests. Xen is a bear to set up from raw source, but as I
> understand it, it is fairly painless under RHEL 5/CentOS 5 and some
> recent versions of Fedora. You *do* have to read the documentation, but
> there *is* documentation. :) I can't offer you any advice for
> Macintoshes ... I've never owned one and odds are I never will.

You can also instead use VirtualBox which is pretty much "click and run" 
(aka 'apt-get install virtualbox') at least under the Debian flavour of 
Linux. And it also runs under Windows...
*t

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