[Numpy-discussion] Vista installer?

[Bill Baxter]

On 5/29/07, Ryan Krauss <ryanlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> It appears that the free VMware player can't just read an iso.  Where
> can I get a good Ubuntu virtual appliance?

The 'image' you're looking for is not an iso, it's a special VMWare image.
Try this one:
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/ubuntu.html

--bb

>
> On 5/28/07, Bryce Hendrix <bhendrix at enthought.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Ryan,
> >
> >  The VMWare player is the best starting point. Just download and install the
> > player, then get an image from somewhere (you can find a plethora of them on
> > the VMWare web site). After downloading the image, its as simple as double
> > clicking on the file in explorer or launching it via the start menu.
> >
> >  Bryce
> >
> >
> >  Ryan Krauss wrote:
> >  What is the easiet way to get started with VMWare with windows as the
> > host operating system? Do I need just VMware player? Do I need some
> > Ubuntu kernel or image or something?
> >
> > Ryan
> >
> > On 5/27/07, Andrew Straw <strawman at astraw.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  Charles R Harris wrote:
> >
> >
> >  On 5/24/07, *Ryan Krauss* <ryanlists at gmail.com
> > <mailto:ryanlists at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >  I am trying to use Numpy/Scipy for a class I am teaching this summer.
> >  I have one student running Vista. Is there an installer that works
> >  for Vista? Running the exe file from webpage gives errors about not
> >  being able to create various folders and files. I think this is from
> >  Vista being very restrictive about which files and folders are
> >  writable. Is anyone out there running Numpy/Scipy in Vista? If so,
> >  how did you get it to work?
> >
> >
> > Install Ubuntu? ;) I've heard nothing but complaints and nasty words
> > from co-workers stuck with new computers and trying to use Vista as a
> > development platform for scientific work.
> >
> >  Just a follow-up, vmware is now given away and Ubuntu has always been
> > free, and I guess most computers with Vista have native support for
> > virtualization. So, this way you could run Ubuntu and Vista
> > simultaneously without a speed loss on either or partitioning the drive.
> > Of course, if it were me I'd put Ubuntu as the host OS and probably
> > never boot the guest OS. ;)
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