Difference between revisions of "Astronaut CPRS in Linux"

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Use in conjunction with the either the WorldVistA server or the OpenVistA server.

I am not able to run TMG-CPRS in either the Wine platform or the Mono platform in Linux. However, I have no problem running it in a virtual machine (in which Windows is installed).

Install VirtualBox in Linux. (I use Ubuntu/Kubuntu -- see Installing VirtualBox in Kubuntu.
Create a new virtual machine. A virtual machine running Windows 98 should be satisfactory. (I name this virtual machine Win98SE, as an example.)
Install Windows 98SE (or Windows XP if you have a spare license) in the virtual machine.
Install the Astronaut CPRS package into Windows in the virtual machine as usual.
Configure Windows (within the virtual machine) so it starts up AstronautSSH as well as TMG-CPRS at startup. That way whenever the virtual machine starts, both the SSH tunnel and TMG-CPRS will start (without intervention). To further streamline this, I change the AstronautSSH negotiation to use a public/private key pair (so that an SSH password is not required).

Create a Menu Item / Shortcut in (K)Ubuntu Linux to start the virtual machine automatically. In the example below, the virtual machine I created in VirtualBox is named Win98SE. In the Command: line of the Menu Item / Shortcut I use

virtualbox -startvm "Win98SE"

Because a virtual machine can be copied and moved anywhere, it is possible to create the entire VirtualBox virtual machine (in a 2 to 8 Gb file) and then place the entire virtual machine on a USB flash drive (with enough storage to accommodate the 2 - 8 Gb file). The USB flash drive can then be plugged into (and the virtual machine run) from any computer that already has VirtualBox installed on it. (This works identically no matter whether the computer running VirtualBox is a Windows computer or a Linux computer.)

OpenVistA-CIS can run completely in Linux.

Use only in conjunction with the OpenVistA server.
Install the Linux version of the OpenVistA-CIS client package (which runs using the Mono platform).

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   virtualbox -startvm "''Win98SE''"
-*Because a virtual machine can be copied and moved anywhere, it is possible to create the entire VirtualBox virtual machine (in a 2 to 8 Gb file) and then place the entire virtual machine on a USB flash drive (with enough storage to accommodate the 2 - 8 Gb file). The USB flash drive can then be plugged into any computer that already has VirtualBox installed it. (This works identically no matter whether the computer running VirtualBox is a Windows computer or a Linux computer.)
+*Because a virtual machine can be copied and moved anywhere, it is possible to create the entire VirtualBox virtual machine (in a 2 to 8 Gb file) and then place the entire virtual machine on a USB flash drive (with enough storage to accommodate the 2 - 8 Gb file). The USB flash drive can then be plugged into (and the virtual machine run) from any computer that already has VirtualBox installed on it. (This works identically no matter whether the computer running VirtualBox is a Windows computer or a Linux computer.)
 == OpenVistA in Linux ==