Virtual drive in Linux?

[Gasman]

Hi folks

I'm trying to get some windows apps running under Wine in Linux but no luck yet and I'm tempted to try my luck running them on a virtual drive but I've no idea how to go about it,anyone point me to a tut or something on the virtual stuff please?.

Thanks

Steve

[mitchelln]

Hi.

Your best bet is to run a virtual machine. I use VMWare Workstation, which is absolutely brilliant. It's a paid app though. There are some excellent free ones though:

https://www.virtualbox.org/

http://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page

[David Smith]

What are you trying to run under Wine?

[Gasman]

Cheers for that, so I create a virtual drive do I then reinstall windows on this virtual drive and then the apps I want or does the virtual drive emulate windows or?????.

best

Steve

[Gasman]

What are you trying to run under Wine?

Hi David

I want to mainly use ISIS and BASS which are spectroscopy packages!. There is a Linux equivalent called IRAF which I gather has quite a steep learning curve and is on the `todo` list but I`d like to use software I`m familiar with for now I nearly managed to run another windows spectro package called Rspec but it froze!.

cheers

Steve

[David Smith]

Not packages I am familiar with running.

I've not used VMWare but use VirtualBox to run some applications in a virtual machine (PIPP for example which refuses to run under Wine if you use a 64 bit OS). It is dead easy to use. If your using Ubuntu or a clone thereof it is in the repo's.

[cgarry]

Not packages I am familiar with running.

I've not used VMWare but use VirtualBox to run some applications in a virtual machine (PIPP for example which refuses to run under Wine if you use a 64 bit OS). It is dead easy to use. If your using Ubuntu or a clone thereof it is in the repo's.

That is interesting, I did not realise that PIPP would not run under Wine with 64 bit versions of Linux.  I have no idea why that is the case but come to think of it I do not have a 64 bit Linux machine set up.  Though PIPP does run under Wine on my MacBook which has a 64 bit OS.

Anyway, this problem should go away when I finally finish PIPP v3 which will run natively on Windows, Linux and OS X; no more wrestling with Wine.

Cheers,

Chris

[Dave_D]

Anyway, this problem should go away when I finally finish PIPP v3 which will run natively on Windows, Linux and OS X; no more wrestling with Wine.

Cheers,

Chris

All hail multi-platform developers... we need more like that

[mitchelln]

Anyway, this problem should go away when I finally finish PIPP v3 which will run natively on Windows, Linux and OS X; no more wrestling with Wine.

Cheers,

Chris

That would be absolutely fantastic PIPP running natively on my Linux box would save me a lot of hassle.

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[cgarry]

All hail multi-platform developers... we need more like that

The multi-platform development is not actually very tricky if you plan it from the start.  Unfortunately PIPP had 2+ years worth of C# code written for it before I looked into getting it running on Linux and OS X.  Oh well, the work to replace the C# code with Qt C++ code is well under-way now and I have quite enjoyed getting up to speed with Qt.

Cheers,

Chris

[GreatAttractor]

Great to hear you took this route, Chris. For all the others who are considering such a move, another easy to use, multiplatform GUI toolkit is wxWidgets.

[David Smith]

That is interesting, I did not realise that PIPP would not run under Wine with 64 bit versions of Linux.  I have no idea why that is the case but come to think of it I do not have a 64 bit Linux machine set up.  Though PIPP does run under Wine on my MacBook which has a 64 bit OS.

Anyway, this problem should go away when I finally finish PIPP v3 which will run natively on Windows, Linux and OS X; no more wrestling with Wine.

Cheers,

Chris

Look forward to that Chris. I have come to depend quite heavily on PIPP so was a bit of a blow when I moved to 64 bit. Have tried every trick I can find but cannot get it to work.

[cgarry]

Not packages I am familiar with running.

I've not used VMWare but use VirtualBox to run some applications in a virtual machine (PIPP for example which refuses to run under Wine if you use a 64 bit OS). It is dead easy to use. If your using Ubuntu or a clone thereof it is in the repo's.

Have you tried creating a 32-bit wineprefix to run the 32-bit applications in?

It is described in section 7.2 on this page:

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ

Cheers,

Chris