On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 12:37 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:15:20 +0000 (UTC)
BeartoothHOS wrote:
> So, afaict, the alternative is to install a virtual M$ under one
> of the virtualization packages, and run my legacy software under that. It
> will almost never get a connection to the Net, other than updates from
> Garmin.
If you need the virtual machine to talk to a physical device (like
via USB), I have heard that virtualbox is better at that than most
other packages (though I have never tried it myself - I have tried
connecting a USB printer to a KVM virtual machine just for grins, and
it made the windows KVM bluescreen, so that didn't work at all).
VirtualBox is fine. Note that for USB access you need the non-free
version. It's easy to set up and I use it to sync and update my iPhone.
poc