[m-dev.] for review: minutes of meeting 09/03/2001

[Fergus Henderson]

On 12-Mar-2001, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > +	- There was a discussion of the need for a Windows machine for
> > +	  testing the Windows and .Net distributions.
> > +
> > +	  	- VMWare considered a bit inconvenient because of its
> > +		  memory usage.
> > +
> > +		- Dual booting a machine also inconvenient.
> > +
> > +		- Decided that Zoltan's old laptop, Traveller, will be
> > +		  chained to a desk and run Windows so that anyone who
> > +		  needs it can use it.
> 
> Another possibility is Win4Lin (http://www.win4lin.com) which lets
> you run Windows from Linux with, I believe, a much smaller memory
> footprint than VMWare.

I had a look at the Win4Lin site.
I don't think Win4Lin will do what we want, because
	- we want to be able to run beta-releases of the .NET SDK
	- these beta-releases only work with Windows 2000
	- Win4Lin only runs Windows 95/98, not 2000 or NT.

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