I run a few virtual machines using qemu, which can be run without hardware virtualisation support. One of the things it will happily do is mount a physical CD drive, so you may be able to burn the music off in this manner (using the -cdrom switch with /dev/dvdrw gives me a DVD burner through the windows interface though I haven't actually tried burning anything yet).
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 23:11 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am Freitag 27 Juli 2007 22:40 schrieb Joshua Doll: > > A. R. wrote: > > > On 7/27/07, Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Hi! > > >> > > >> I need a way to use Napster or iTunes on Linux. (I don't like DRM but > > >> it's not my PC and not my decision) > > >> > > >> I think my best bet would be a virtual machine with Windows 2000 (I can > > >> spare the licence). The PC is an older AMD64 without AMD-V. Therefore I > > >> need something that > > >> > > >> a) is free or at least not expensive > > >> b) works without AMD-V and Intel-V > > >> c) works with Win2k > > >> d) simulates a CD recorder for burning the music (or do you know a > > >> better way to get rid of DRM again?) > > >> > > >> I hope my English was good enough to explain myself and you can help me. > > >> > > >> Thanks in advance! > > >> > > >> Florian Philipp > > > > > > The only thing I can think of is "wine" (an emulator), which is in the > > > portage tree: > > > > > > emerge -va wine > > > > > > After that, there is a very good site for using wine with several > > > programs: http://frankscorner.org/ > > > > > > I know nothing on how to avoid all that DRM fiasco. > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > - AR > > > > There's vmare, kvm, qemu?, and xen that I can think of right off the top > > of my head. Wine might work but I wouldn't bet on it. > > > > > > --Joshua Doll > > KVM needs Intel-V or AMD-V. Xen doesn't need it for Linux and BSD but needs > it > for Windows. > Qemu and vmware might work but I just don't know if they can emulate a cd > recorder and that's what I need to know. > > Wine does not work (iTunes doesn't start, Napster can't playback and is > barely > tested, Windows Media Player is tricky at best - everything according to > appdb.winehq.org). Even if it would start, I don't think Wine supports the > DRM framework of Win.
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