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*Create a Menu Item / Shortcut in (K)Ubuntu Linux to start the virtual machine automatically. In the example below, the virtual machine I created in VirtualBox is named ''Win98SE''. In the ''Command:'' line of the Menu Item / Shortcut I use
 
*Create a Menu Item / Shortcut in (K)Ubuntu Linux to start the virtual machine automatically. In the example below, the virtual machine I created in VirtualBox is named ''Win98SE''. In the ''Command:'' line of the Menu Item / Shortcut I use
 
  virtualbox -startvm "''Win98SE''"
 
  virtualbox -startvm "''Win98SE''"
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*Because a virtual machine can be copied and moved anywhere, it is possible to create the entire VirtualBox virtual machine (in a 2 to 8 Gb file) and then place the entire virtual machine on a USB flash drive. The USB flash drive can then be plugged into any computer and used with VirtualBox (pre-installed on that machine).
  
 
== OpenVistA in Linux ==
 
== OpenVistA in Linux ==

Revision as of 17:50, 4 March 2010

(under construction)

Astronaut TMG-CPRS in Linux

  • I am not able to run TMG-CPRS in either the Wine platform or the Mono platform in Linux. However, I have no problem running it in a virtual machine (in which Windows is installed).
  • Run TMG-CPRS in Windows in a VirtualBox virtual machine.
  • Install VirtualBox in Linux. (I use Ubuntu/Kubuntu -- see Installing VirtualBox in Kubuntu.
  • Create a new virtual machine. A virtual machine running Windows 98 should be satisfactory. (I name this virtual machine Win98SE, as an example.)
  • Install Windows 98SE (or Windows XP if you have a spare license) in the virtual machine.
  • Install the Astronaut CPRS package into Windows in the virtual machine as usual.
  • Configure Windows (within the virtual machine) so it starts up AstronautSSH as well as TMG-CPRS at startup. That way whenever the virtual machine starts, both the SSH tunnel and TMG-CPRS will start (without intervention). To further streamline this, I change the AstronautSSH negotiation to use a public/private key pair (so that an SSH password is not required).
  • Create a Menu Item / Shortcut in (K)Ubuntu Linux to start the virtual machine automatically. In the example below, the virtual machine I created in VirtualBox is named Win98SE. In the Command: line of the Menu Item / Shortcut I use
virtualbox -startvm "Win98SE"
  • Because a virtual machine can be copied and moved anywhere, it is possible to create the entire VirtualBox virtual machine (in a 2 to 8 Gb file) and then place the entire virtual machine on a USB flash drive. The USB flash drive can then be plugged into any computer and used with VirtualBox (pre-installed on that machine).

OpenVistA in Linux

OpenVistA-CIS can run completely in Linux.