I think I will try vmware, now. Thankyou all Francisco Tom Deutschman wrote: >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 > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics >(like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > >. > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics