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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:15:36 +0100
From: Bob Cowdery <bob@bobcowdery.plus.com>
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David

I run the other way around at the moment, Vista VM under Ubuntu. For 
production it's a definite possibility to do as you say but there is I/O 
involved that may not work too great on a VM so a lot of testing is 
required and timescales are as usual too short.

Regards
Bob

David Christensen wrote:
> Bob Cowdery wrote:
>   
>> My end game was to install Cython and compile up some Python stuff 
>> which was written on Linux but needs to run on Windows. There are lots
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>> of shell scripts involved and the complete system does not lend itself
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>> to running native, hence the short-term need to run under Cygwin.
>>     
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> As an alternative, how about installing virtual machine software on
> Windows, get/build a GNU/Linux virtual machine, and put your software on
> that?
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> David
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>   


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