Xlobby on Linux

[BMD]

I was browsing distrowatch.org, trying to decide on a linux distro to install as a networked media player when this caught my eye:
http://www.monoppix.com/

It's intention is "Showcasing and spreading Mono technology which is a free .NET framework implementation to linux/unix operating systems."

it's a live-cd, which means if you restart your computer with the cd in the drive, your computer boots into Linux, without touching or harming the hard drive.

I was, of course, wondering if you could run xlobby on it?
BMD

[lar282]

u cannot run xlobby on linux.
It is a .NET application.

//Lasse

[BMD]

is it me or did you read the title and skip the post?

Could you run xlobby through WINE or something on Monoppix?

[lar282]

It was probablöy me. Sorry about that.

Question is still unanswered


//Lasse

[Mac]

BMD

I have the same question. Did you ever find an answer on whether or not xlobby can run on a linux system? Could it work using a virtual machine/virtual hard drive running Windows XP within a Linux environment?

thanks,
Mac

[BMD]

Unfortunately this thread is as far as I got. As far as virtual machines are concerned, I've had alot of fun with a program called qemu. I only used it to emulate linux inside of windows, but if memory serves me correctly it can also emulate windows inside linux. Then from there you could configure windows to auto-log on to a user, drop a shortcut to xlobby.exe into the startup directory, and end up with a nice xlobby frontend. Network is passed through, but I dont know if the host machine's hard drive is visible (for media). I never had any problems with speed, but I'm running a 3.6 ghz dual-core computer with 2 gigs of ram.

I now have a dedicated linux computer, but it's an atrociously slow laptop, so I dont think it's up to the task of windows emulation.

Hope that helps,

Dan