tomtom home on virtualbox?

[MoebusNet]

has anyone had any luck running tomtom home with virtual box, vmware or wine?

[Frak]

You do have XP or Vista installed in your VM right?

[MoebusNet]

I haven't installed or used virtualbox, vmware or any of the rest. I was hoping that someone here had already done so and tried out tomtom home. If the programmers here can't get it to work, I haven't got a prayer.

[Frak]

I'm pretty sure it would work, I couldn't think of why it wouldn't.

[MoebusNet]

I've got VMware running XP on Gutsy. Installed TomTom Home to the virtual XP machine and everything seems to be working correctly. Still don't know how to do everything under Ubuntu/Linux, though.

[tcdrewiv]

I've used tom tom with virtualbox and vmware server using XP and 2000pro....
Its pretty simple.
I prefer virtualbox over vmware server because your USB connection can be made after your virtual machine is running w/ virtualbox. Sometimes in the process of transfering data the device may need to be restarted and that can be a pain if you are using vmware. If you use vmware server you have to connect prior to starting the vm or it will not see the USB device.

Make sure your virtual hard drive is large enough so you can back up the tom tom (you should have about 2GB of room just for tom tom) to the hard drive in order to install new maps.