Is it possible to use iTunes through VMware?
It seems that wine can't install iTunes, so the last hope is Parallel or VMware. Did somebody suceeded?

Worse case you could use Vmplayer or vmserver to install windows.

I use PCLinuxOS and have XP installed in a 6GB virtual drive.

I'm assuming that your iTunes is meant to be run under Windows 98. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I have found that wine is not a very capable Windows emulator. Personally I'm currently using Win4Lin to run Windows 95 under Linux and I'm running Netzero under that Win4Lin Windows 95 to connect to the internet to post this message here. Considering how demanding internet software is to Windows, that should suggest that Win4Lin is a good candidate for your iTunes, since it can also run Windows 98 and includes Direct X support. However, I have never used iTunes so I don't know for sure. Unfortunately, Win4Lin these days has almost non-existent technical support and you need that technical support in order to get the modified Linux kernel that is required to run Win4Lin.

I have never used Parallels nor VMWare, but have been told that they are even better virtual machines than even Win4Lin. I am expecting to get FC4 soon and plan to try out Parallels and see how it runs Windows 95 under FC4. Maybe then, I might have a better feel as to how good Parallels is as a virtual machine.

iTunes only runs on Win2k, WinXP and OSX.

While I don't know about running it in VMWare, or in basic Wine, it runs just fine in CrossOver Office.

Given this, I would expect iTunes to run just fine under Win2k/XP using VMWare or Parallels due to the nature of their hardware abstraction layer.

Here is a link where you might find an answer:http://www.vmware.com/community/index.jspa. At the moment I am running two vms on xp, haven't tried it the other way round.

here is how to run it using wine

http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=itunes6

Thank all for replies.

Seems this is possible, but only connecting the ipod to a USB 1.0 port.
iTunes as a media player will probably work.

But i want to be sure that there is someone who clearly suceeded in using his ipod under VMware.

C'mon, gimme answers, i have to install this on a pretty girl's computer, and i want to show her my skillz .

-=BuMp!=-

if all you want is to download songs, then you can get sharpmusique. There are other applications to connect and upload to the itunes player. I don't think you are going to get itunes to work with wine, perhaps codeweavers has figured it out. For a small ,fee of course.

?? So it's possible to use the iTunes service and buy music through other software than iTunes?

yes, that's what I wrote. Sharpmusique will allow you to download songs (no video) from the itunes music store. One good thing about using this is that the sogns are drm clean.

iTunes works on both windows and mac. Is there linux version?

Sadly not.