

#VIRTUALBOX LINUX MINT 18.2 SOFTWARE#
I have tried Wine, virtualized Windows with virtualbox and qemu just no joy, no go, will not work I wish I could go that route but for now music composing using Linux/Wine is dead if desiring to use high end orchestral sampled libraries like I mentioned ( LA Scoring Strings, Symphobia and Orchestral Essentials, EWQL Symphonic Orchestra, and many others- I have about $10,000 of such software that will not work with Linux, especially with a midi controller keyboard and a DAW like Reaper (reaper.fm)- latency way too long and crackles and pops during sounds.

But the software I listed just does not work with wine- the issue is twofold- heavy anti-piracy built into such software, and much longer audio latency and audio crackles and pops when try to compose music with such software. Oddly, I used to use Wine to play Diablo, Diablo2, and World of Warcraft and those games ran better on Wine than on Windows 7, lol. Unfortunately Wine will not work for the software I need (and listed), believe me I have tried. Use WINE it's a linux app that can run windows applications. But I am liking the virtualized Linux Mint, I am learning the virtualbox command line command to start and modify virtual drives like Mint, and now I am working on swapping out the Oracle Virtualbox splash boot image for a custom image, make the virtual Mint experience even more linux-like (customization).īeowulf888 wrote:How I wish I could ditch Windows but I can not (I need Windows for my music composing software- Sibelius, Kontakt, DAW). Yeah, I really have to use Windows, native not virtual, for the music composing, how I wish that was available to do via Linux but it just is not, at least not with any true commercial high quality instrument libraries (Symphobia, EWQL Symphonic Orchestra, Berlin Orchestra, Sibelius). Yup, I have the linux mint virtual drive on a spare SSD drive, and i set it up with a dynamic size of 20GB (currently 10GB), I can easily back it up to a 25GB blu ray optical disc now and then. Ie: back up both the VM software and any working VMs to an external drive. However, do, export any working VMs to an external drive, as the windows system has a tendency to crash,Īnd as such, you would thus lose any working VMs that you have have got working. to run LinuxMint as a VM inside of the win-10.īest of both worlds, really, as you can still run your Music Software within win-10,Īnd yet, still have the security of LinuxMint inside that Virtual Machine. Pierre wrote:it seems beowulf888 that you best solution, is what you have stated:
