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From: Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>
Subject: Re: Ada is getting more popular!
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:23:54 +0100
Date: 2010-10-30T07:23:54+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0kcnc61i572o4mval4nvjpa7gehbpbt0pv@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4ccad418$0$23765$14726298@news.sunsite.dk

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:03:03 +0200, Thomas L�cke <tl@ada-dk.org> wrote:

>On 2010-10-29 16:04, Brian Drummond wrote:
>> It's probably worth asking when you tried it.

>> On the other hand, if your application needs to access special PCI hardware, you
>> are probably still SOL.

>That is the big stumbling block. I make heavy use of Intel dialogic
>cards, and they've so far utterly refused to do anything when using
>Wine.
>
>So yea, I'm SOL.

Yeah. Asking Wine to support Windows device drivers under Linux is probably a
bit much... and expecting it to translate Win I/O requests to Linux drivers,
doubly so.

When faced with closed source (an FPGA prototyping solution) I went through
several virtualisation tools on Linux before I found one (KVM) that had recently
learned how to virtualise PCI slots, and let me select which PCI and USB devices
are passed through to the VM, and which are reserved to the host. 

There may be other virtualisation tools that can do so now, this was well over a
year ago. (VirtualBox closed source could handle USB but not PCI,  VB open
source and Xen could handle neither. One of them gave me a nice BSOD with Linux
happily running behind it!)

It still meant I had to install Windows (2000 in my case) on the virtual
machine. 

But at least KVM gave Windows a "vanilla" machine with no sharp corners to cut
itself on. Probably not a Microsoft supported combination, though...

It kept me going, but may not be a solution for mission-critical work.

- Brian 
(apologies for getting so far off topic)



  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-30  6:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 128+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-13  7:15 Ada is getting more popular! Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-10-13 12:07 ` ramon_garcia
2010-10-13 14:51   ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-13 17:00     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-14 22:10       ` Robert A Duff
2010-10-15  7:27         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-13 15:04   ` Mark Lorenzen
2010-10-13 18:01   ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-13 18:50     ` mockturtle
2010-10-13 21:53     ` ramon_garcia
2010-10-13 22:34       ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-13 22:49         ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-10-13 23:00           ` ramon_garcia
2010-10-13 23:21             ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-14  0:57             ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-15 12:12             ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2010-10-24 22:10               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-13 22:49         ` ramon_garcia
2010-10-13 23:05           ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-14  4:59             ` Simon Wright
2010-10-14 18:45               ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-14 18:48                 ` Vinzent Hoefler
     [not found]       ` <i95f0n$j61$1@tornado.tornevall.net>
2010-10-14  5:03         ` Simon Wright
2010-10-13 20:17   ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-13 22:05   ` Simon Wright
2010-10-14  2:20   ` tmoran
2010-10-24 22:15     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-25  0:14       ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-24 21:21   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-25  0:12     ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-25  7:43       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-25  7:52       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-25  8:07         ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-25  9:21           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-25  9:47         ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-10-25 10:33           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-25 11:00             ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-10-25 13:24               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-31 19:59                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-25 19:06               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-25 22:39                 ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-25 23:29                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-26  6:29                     ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-26 14:33                       ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-10-26 13:59                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-27 11:59                           ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-10-27 13:07                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-27 17:51                               ` Laziness (Was: Re: Ada is getting more popular!) Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-27 20:51                                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-11-03 18:02                               ` Ada is getting more popular! Colin Paul Gloster
2010-11-03 20:52                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-11-04  1:27                                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-11-04  1:30                                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-26 18:29                         ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-27 11:32                           ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-10-27 19:28                             ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-27 19:38                               ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-27 20:46                               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-28  6:06                                 ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-28  8:19                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-28  9:41                                     ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-28 13:01                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-28 18:21                                         ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-28 20:18                                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-28 20:33                                             ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-10-28 21:19                                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-28 23:37                                                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-29  8:00                                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-29  9:19                                                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-29 10:03                                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-29 16:55                                                       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-30  9:50                                                       ` Florian Weimer
2010-10-30 12:58                                                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-30 17:48                                                           ` Florian Weimer
2010-10-30 18:50                                                             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-30 19:02                                                             ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-30 19:26                                                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-30 20:57                                                                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-31  7:48                                                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-31 10:59                                                                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-31 12:36                                                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-30 18:17                                                           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-29 16:51                                                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-28 21:02                                             ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-28 21:31                                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-28 21:28                                           ` Brian Drummond
2010-10-29  5:13                                             ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-29 14:04                                               ` Brian Drummond
2010-10-29 14:03                                                 ` Thomas Løcke
2010-10-30  6:23                                                   ` Brian Drummond [this message]
2010-10-29  0:31                                       ` Chad  R. Meiners
2010-10-29 11:47                                       ` stefan-lucks
2010-10-28 17:25                                     ` Warren
2010-10-28  9:12                                   ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-28 17:02                                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-28 17:58                                     ` Nicholas Collin Paul Gloster
2010-10-28 18:17                                       ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-29 18:59                                         ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-29 19:56                                           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-29 20:28                                             ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-29 21:51                                               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-31  1:35                                               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-31  5:02                                                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-31  6:42                                                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-31 10:38                                                   ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-31 10:54                                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-31 12:54                                                       ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-31 14:57                                                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-31 13:57                                                       ` Niklas Holsti
2010-10-31 21:02                                                         ` Niklas Holsti
2010-11-02  9:15                                                           ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-31 14:39                                                       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-31 17:21                                                       ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-31 18:04                                                       ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-31 20:00                                                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-31 18:06                                                     ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-30  0:01                                             ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-30  0:30                                               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-30 17:00                                                 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-26  0:10                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-25 12:06             ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-25 13:41               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-25 14:55                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-25 19:33             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-26 20:37             ` Shark8
2010-10-25 11:49           ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-25 19:58             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-25 19:17           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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