Planet Replay

[zabolots]

I would have thought this would be in an FAQ or at least easily answered via a search of the forum but I couldn't find the answer. Will WiRNS work on a Linux machine with Mono? If so, what Mono packages are required to make it work? If not, is it still planned? (The only hits I found on my search regarding Mono were quite old)

Thanks...Scott

[Glenn1963]

Not in its current form, there are several Windows-specific issues that would need to be addressed, database, some unsupported .net...

Right now I think it's planned for WiRNS Version 3.0 or 4.0

-G

[bob645]

I don't know if it has been brought up before, but I have WiRNS and IVSm running in a VM using the free VMWare Player. A very basic Win2000 install uses 96MB Ram and very little CPU. The virtual C: drive uses about 1.25GB.

The pluses are that no matter what changes I make to my system, which are frequent, my WiRNS and IVSm stay alive when I reboot the VM.

The minuses, your shows will be stored inside a virtual HDD as IVSm and WiRNS do not use network mapped drives (at least when I tried it a few months ago), I don't think it is that bad of a minus, as you can easily share this drive in Windows and then use smbmount to mount it to a path in your linux file system.
I setup a 120GB virtual disk for this, this resides in a .vmdk file on your local file system and you can store it anywhere as long as the VMWare config file knows where it is.

I have sevaral blank virtual HDDS in various sizes ranging from 100GB to 700GB. Since they are blank they compressed into a 500K zip file. If this will be useful to you let me know and I'll email it to you.

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There are many resources on the web for creating the .vmx configuration file so you don't have to buy the pro version of VMWare.

Download the VMWare player, http://www.vmware.com/download/player/
Create a configuration file.
http://dcgrendel.thewaffleiron.net/vmbuilder/