Windows 2000 Runs On Xbox Under Linux

MBCook writes "Everybody's favorite Xbox hackers have got Linux running for roughly six weeks, and now it runs well enough to announce that Windows has been run inside Linux with common PC virtualization software. They even have a little video of it playing a MPEG 4 of The Matrix fullscreen!"

Although you're joking...

[Anonymous Coward]

No. You can't run another VMWare session inside of a VMWare session. x86 hardware just isn't suited to virtualisation, and one layer is all you'll get.

Now, you could run Linux under Bochs under Windows 2000 under VMWare under Linux on the XBox....

Just came across this page

[perlyking]

http://www.openoffice.org/screenshots/index.html
screenshots of open office on XBOX.

Re:Okay.. so how many...

[_ganja_]

Maybe there are no counts of the DMCA being breached here?

Xbox is reversed engineered for operability; running GNU/Linux which the DMCA allows.

You assume their copy of Win2k is a pirate version.

How do you know this is a bootleg of the Matrix? They could very well own the original disk / this could well be the trailer.

Re:Win 2k

[koh]

It's a stripped-down version that runs at ring 0 (in short, a small kernel-space "bundled" win2k).

Maybe it can understand CreateWindowEx(), but it sure won't understand half the routines needed to run PC Windows apps.

Maybe with a custom library CD...

Re:cool but...

[Corporate Troll]

What part of "MPEG 4" don't you understand? Yes, it has a DVD player, but DVD is "MPEG 2". They played a DivX, so yes, it is actually interesting.

VMWare

[Anonymous Coward]

What do you think you mean with "VMware, I doubt works without the proper architecture behind it." What do you think an XBox is? Do you understand what an Operating System is, and how device drivers work? Once they had Linux and XFree86 running, they can run any x86 Linux software they like. Including VMWare.

Or Plex86

[yerricde]

but many forgot to talk about bochs: a free [freespeech] PC emulator.

Bochs [sourceforge.net] emulates a PC, including the CPU. Thus, things become slow, and you may not have enough power to view an MPEG movie, but you can run x86 apps on other CPU architectures. In addition, bochs is slow enough that it runs old DOS games at the "right" speed.

Plex86 [plex86.org], on the other hand, runs on x86 processors and "virtualizes" the environment. It emulates only the motherboard, a couple common adapter cards, and some aspects of the inner-ring modes of the CPU. It runs x86 user code natively on the processor, preserving most of the speed.

But if they can build a $200 Lindows PC, why not make a $200 "additional PC" PCI card? It would let Anonymous Coward actually build a Beowulf cluster in his PC's case.

Re:Virtual, eh?

[psavo]

WINE is not a virtualization software. VMware is. WINE is a mere wrapper.

Re:for Pete's Sake!

[Skuld-Chan]

Thats a commodore 1084 - as I recall its a split video, composite, and rgb monitor with a .45 dot pitch - not bad for the day. I think its made by phillips.

As far as a TV set goes you'll not find much better for the size. Later versions had stereo sound built in, Commodore's 1942, 1950, 1962 etc were better dot pitch wise and could do ntsc through vga (.28), but they didn't have the composite inputs.