For years, I could install, and sometimes run, legacy private map software under Wine. But in order to connect it with my GPSs, I had to keep a separate hard drive with XP, and do that there. Then came a brief time when I could also actually make my Garmin GPSs talk with the software under Wine. I transferred all my data to it, and gleefully wiped XP off my machine. Then the connecting failed again, and has continued to. Recently, however, I've installed virtual XP under VirtualBox in Fedora Linux 14. Once again, my GPSs talk to my software. However, I deleted much of the old data off the GPSs to make space for new, and have it preserved only in the old Wine files. Is there an easy way, (preferably with a web site to walk the subtechnoid through it!) to copy those old waypoints, routes, tracks, and even maps into the files of the virtual XP?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote:> > ? ? ? ?For years, I could install, and sometimes run, legacy private map > software under Wine. But in order to connect it with my GPSs, I had to > keep a separate hard drive with XP, and do that there. > > ? ? ? ?Then came a brief time when I could also actually make my Garmin > GPSs talk with the software under Wine. I transferred all my data to it, > and gleefully wiped XP off my machine. > > ? ? ? ?Then the connecting failed again, and has continued to. Recently, > however, I've installed virtual XP under VirtualBox in Fedora Linux 14. > Once again, my GPSs talk to my software. However, I deleted much of the > old data off the GPSs to make space for new, and have it preserved only > in the old Wine files. > > ? ? ? ?Is there an easy way, (preferably with a web site to walk the > subtechnoid through it!) to copy those old waypoints, routes, tracks, and > even maps into the files of the virtual XP?? >I think this is more of a question for the software vendor than wine. John
John Drescher wrote:> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > ? ? ? ?? ? ? ?Is there an easy way, (preferably with a web site to walk the > > subtechnoid through it!) to copy those old waypoints, routes, tracks, and > > even maps into the files of the virtual XP?? > > > > > > I think this is more of a question for the software vendor than wine. >If I understand correctly, it's a question about how to copy files from the wineprefix to the VM. The answer is, the same way you would copy any other file from the host to the guest. That's not a Wine question; ask your distro or a VirtualBox forum.
Beartooth wrote:> > Is there any way, especially any canonical way, to find out why a > program that once worked under Wine ceases to work?http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting> > Or to specify that > any .zzz file (for some zzz), and only such files, can be map data, and > therefore harmless at worst?As John said, ask Garmin.
You could try to find out, which files Garmin software uses to store data and copy them over. Regression testing is quite some effort, but might yield the exact patch(es) that broke the communication, with that information you could file a bug, and hopefully the regression would be corrected in future wine versions. That would probably be the best solution. But there might be a much simpler way. Did you try to install older wine versions? Depending on your Linux and package manager this should be quite easy. Even if regression testing is to hard for you, you still could file a bug, pointing out, which wine release broke your software.