[Numpy-discussion] Vista installer?

[Ryan Krauss]

It appears that the free VMware player can't just read an iso.  Where
can I get a good Ubuntu virtual appliance?

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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