Well, I did the voodoo dance, sacrificed a virtual chicken, installed QEMU and KQEMU (and that deserves a post all its own) and finally have Windows Live Writer running in a VM.

It took many nights and showed me many BSOD’s and other crashes but I have my blogging client and I have Ubuntu too <yippie>.

And just to prove it, here is a screen shot ! The screen show the QEMU virtual machine window (with the sea foam green background), Liferea running on Ubuntu and showing my blog post about blogging clients for Linux, and a terminal window on Ubuntu because you *always have a terminal window open* <grin>.

the VM is not blazingly fast, even with KQEMU. I may take the plunge and give the trial version of VMWare 6 a try.

Related tangests ...   Why I host my own Wordpress blog   Please oh please - give me a *good* virtual desktop for Windows !   Fixed my WordPress plugin ... finally

Posted in Blogging, Ubuntu, VMWare |

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.