Thread: Developing internet tablet apps in Windows
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Duncan is offline Duncan
2008-02-25 , 19:22
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Originally Posted by dont View Post
Ok, I am interested but I am still unclear about what this buys me over VMWare.

Do you mean that I can use an existing Windows tool, for example a favourite editor, and use it to transparently edit and save files that Scratchbox under andLinux can use?

Can I use Windows Explorer to manage the files that andLinux controls?
I don't know about andLinux, but most of this you can do with vmWare and the bits which are hard I expect would be hard with andLinux also.

You can access your Windows drive from inside a vmware machine using hgfs, or you can share parts of the Linux drive using Samba or NFS and mount them in Windows.

That means you can use your Windows editor, explorer, TortoiseSVN &c. but you have to watch out for line endings. Even if your editor preserves the unix style newlines it probably defaults to DOS. SVN's eol-style:native will give you Windows line ends also.

In theory (i.e. I haven't tried this) you should be able to configure vmware so that both the scratchbox terminal window and the emulated desktop are running directly on a Windows X server. That would mean you could just minimise the vmware window, and have everything on the windows desktop.