On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:26:50 -0800, Dan Devine wrote:
>> I have tried wine and bochs, but no success.
>>

> If I had this (MPLAB and perhaps AutoCAD on Linux), I'd be able to
> reformat my only Windows machine and move away from MS forever! ...
>  I'm
> already using Eagle on Linux, the only reason I keep windows around
> is
> for MPLAB.
>
> DD

You might want to download a trial copy (45-days) of VMWare
Workstation 4.0. There are two flavors, one for a Linux Host and one
for a Windows host. I'm currently using the Windows host version with
RedHat 9 as my guest operating system. In Linux (guest os) , I'm using
the GNU tools to cross-compile code for the ARM7. I can then invoke
ddd with arm-elf-gdb as my debugger and connect to my Chameleon JTAG
pod through LPT1 (assigned to the virtual machine) and download code,
single-step, etc. My point is that the virtual machines are done so
well that programs executing in the guest OS should have no problem
using hardware ports such as serial, parallel, USB, etc.



You could use Linux as your host and install XP (or other MS OS) as
your guest OS and then run Autocad or mplab. Programmer's Paradise is
running a special on VMWare right now.



Tom

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