Wanting to dip your toe in an see the current state of Moonlight under Linux or check the compatibility of your Silverlight 1.0 application with Moonlight then read on.
Until recently to install Moonlight you had two choices:
- Use the non multimedia version from the official Moonlight Download page.
- Compile from the source files for full Moonlight multimedia support.
Fortunately there is a precompiled package on the Third Party openSUSE site that allows a relatively easy install process for openSUSE. In this post I am going to walk through the process of setting up the current Moonlight Build 0.7 that is available as a 1 Click install within OpenSUSE 10.2 or newer using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.
The main steps in the process are:
- Download openSUSE LiveCD Version 11 from the download site. For this post I have used the KDE version.
- Install of the Live CD onto the Virtual Hard Disk.
- Optional update of network settings for DNS server. This is only required if you cannot access the Internet by default from within the virtual client.
- Online update to get security updates and latest Version 3.0 Firefox browser.
- Install of Moonlight from PackMan using 1-Click install.
- Install of Microsoft TrueType fonts to ensure correct rendering in the browser.
07-Troubleshooting
Boot Options
