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Initial Goal

..is to run GR Gleam in a VM.  Probably that entails

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To start, experimenting with VirtualBox , but since we're only concerned with Linux for now, VMware (VMplayer product) would do as well; there may be other suitable candidates. Advantages of VirtualBox compared to VMware are

  • Supported OSes
    • VirtualBox supports Linux, Windows and Mac for client and host (though there are a bunch of restrictions for Mac, mostly due to the way Apple does things).
    • VMplayer supports Linux and
    Windows   
    • Windows  
  • API
    • VirtualBox API (the same one used internally, hence complete) supports C++, python, and any other languages that understand (Microsoft) COM or, on non-Windows platforms, XPCOM for applications running on the host.  There is also a web service which implements nearly the complete API.  Any language with a toolkit for wsdl can use this.  It's especially easy to use from Python and Java because the VirtualBox SDK includes wrapper classes for these languages. 
    • The free SDK product VIX can be used with VMplayer.  Functionality is somewhat limited compared to use with non-free products VMworkstation and vSphere, but may be sufficient for us. In particular, it does include the ability to start a program on a VM. Bindings exist only for C, Perl, and (Microsoft) COM.