Re: virtualization software for windows

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Valentin Villenave
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Graham Percival
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The only reason it would be a bad thing is if their license forbids
>> using it to contribute to open-source projects.  I consider this
>> unlikely, but I'd like somebody to look into it.
>
> I have, and it doesn't.

Thanks!

>> I'm working on related parts of the CG, so I'll remove the "we
>> recommend the open source edition" part, but I wouldn't feel
>> comfortable pushing it until somebody's checked their PEUL license to
>> make sure that we're not recommending that people break the (contract)
>> law.
>
> ... Or you can post one of the links I suggested above.

I don't want to confuse new contributors.  We should recommend *one*
program, for all OSes.  The easiest-to-use virtualization program we
can find.  This appears to be the closed-source virtual box.

The CG already states that "any virtualization tool can be used"; if
somebody has used vmware (maybe at work?), or likes qemu or whatever,
then that's fine.  But for the typical "hey guys, I've never worked on
open source before, but I like lilypond, can I do anything to help?
I'm running xp" potential contributor, we should point them at
virtualbox.

I want new recruits to be confused about our source code, not about
how to compile that code.

Cheers,
- Graham