Re: Ada for Netbeans

["Steve D" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net>]

<RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:177f3c38-ad04-4b33-989e-cc54dac4d9cf@w1g2000prm.googlegroups.com...
>On Dec 30 2008, 9:55 am, "Steve D" <nospam_steve...@comcast.net>
>wrote:
>[snip]
>as possible
>Slightly OT - please forgive me.
>
>Sun's VirtualBox - is this like VMWARE? which distro of Linux have you
>run successfully? In particular with gnat? Hypothetically, could one
>have the same dir structure and build on both platforms?
>
>thanks for any info,
>
>srini

Yes, it is very much like VMWARE.

I have run both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Ubuntu.  I have run gnat on 
both versions.  The VirtualBox manual describes officially supported "Guest 
Additions" for Fedora, Redhat, SUSE, and Ubuntu.  I have also run Windows 
2000 with no issues.

The 64 bit version of virtual box version 2.1.2 is about a 40 MB download. 
I started using the 64 bit version when I started running Vista 64.  I used 
the 32 bit version when I was running XP.

The easiest way to install an OS is to download an ISO image and mount it as 
a virtual disk on the VM.  With Ubuntu it just worked.

I have used 3 virtual machines (in order of preference): VMWARE Workstation, 
VirtutalBox and VirtualPC.

I think VMWARE is nicer than VirtualBox, but you can't beat the price of 
VirtualBox.

Sorry I can't help with building gnat.  I haven't tried it in a long time 
and didn't know what I was doing the last time I did.

Regards,
Steve