Hi Everyone,
Happy New Year to all !
Over the years I've been running various versions of Visual DataFlex on
linux using wine. While I personally do not think it is ready for
production, it actually is fun to see it work.
As I've had the question if it is possible to run VDF on linux popup
quite a few times, I decided to setup a demo in a Virtual Machine (VM)
this evening.
So now I've setup a VMware VM with Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS and VDF2008
Release Candidate 2 using wine.
Fully configured and ready to run, it is all just a few clicks away
VDF2008 has been pre-installed using the demo license, so only 30 more
days to play.
Of course this is not supported by anyone. If you want to run a
supported version of VDF then use at least a windows OS in your virtual
machine.. but with all the disclaimers in mind, it does actually work
reasonably well.
One note is that if you get an error, you might have to use the "X"
button instead of the "OK" button on the error dialog in order to
proceed. Not sure why that is, but oh well... you can't have it all I
suppose.
Here's my global install notes from the README.txt.
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Date: 2009-01-03
user: vmware
password: dataflex
installed vmware-tools and thus the prerequisites as well (see history
command for what has been done)
The OS is up-to-date until the creation date.
wine 1.0 is installed
VDF2008.1 RC2 is installed.
Subversion is installed
The Hammer from the vdf-guidance repository is installed
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The zip file is approximately 1GB in size...
You can get it from:
http://oplocks.com/VdfOnLinux-RC2-20090103.zip.md5sum
http://oplocks.com/VdfOnLinux-RC2-20090103.zip
Provided you have VMware set up, it should work right away.
ALL vmware versions and every platform (windows/linux/OS X) is
"supported" as I've used virtual hardware version 4.x for the VM. Not
the fastest/most flashy version, but it does work on every VMware
product (Player 1.x+/VMware Server 1.x+,VMware ESX3.x+,VMware
Workstation5.x+,VMware Fusion 1.x and higher).
If your VMware product is newer then it should be painless to upgrade to
the current virtual hardware version.
Enjoy!
--
Wil
PS: Attached is a screenshot of a physical ubuntu box down here running
the VDF14.0 Order Entry Example.
PS2: It will take about another 90 minutes before the upload of the zip
file is done, you won't be able to download the file before that time,
but I'm not going to wait for that now