On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Stephen Graham
P.S. Perhaps it would be easier for the phenix dev team to make and distribute a Linux virtual image with phenix pre-installed, rather than try to support Windows natively?
Not really - then we'd be expected to support the virtual Linux system too. My experience with virtual machines is that they're not particularly stable or reliable, and the only person I know who runs Phenix this way has reported issues with the GUI freezing, apparently unrelated to the networking issues some other people have had. I still don't know what's causing that. Running the most processor-intensive programs on a virtual machine seems like a waste of time anyway. For now, I would still recommend that crystallographers either buy computers from companies that specifically support Linux on their hardware and will pre-install it, or buy Macs. -Nat