[ubuntu-uk] Sonic Stage alternative

[Alan Pope]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 01:34:43PM +0000, Rob Beard wrote:
> I have a Minidisc recorder which uses exactly the same software.  The 
> only way I managed to get it working was to run VMWare and a basic 
> installation of Windows XP.

Don't forget QEMU when mentioning VMWare :) QEMU is an open source computer emulator. I've run 
Win95, 98, NT, 2K, XP and other operating systems under QEMU quite sucessfully. It does have an 
optional closed-source kernel module based accelerator which works very well, and if you're okay 
using that then all the better. It's a lot more open than VMWare :)

There's a couple of apps that I use that only work on Windows, and I run them under a virtual 
machine once in a while. The VM images are actually on a usb drive and work fine from there.

Cheers,
Al.