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Well I have been getting asked alot if I have been able to get my Zune to sync with a Linux box. Short answer, not very easily. I use Ubuntu on all my machines at home except my Gaming rig, gotta have windows for PC gaming. Any who, You can get your Zune to sync with a Linux box provided you know how to install VMWare. Basically VMWare is a program that is installed and acts like a PC, so once you have VMWare running you then install your OS, in this case WindowsXP. I am not going to go through the installation process as that is well documented. Just google vmware and I am sure you can find some instructions.

Now with your vmware session running with winxp you should be able to install the zune software and get up and running with out any hitches, EXCEPT, vmware does not support usb 2.0, if your running usb 2.o on your linux box you will have to uninstall the usb 2.0 driver. If you don’t your windows xp vmware session will blue screen on you, or just stop responding or, may call you nasty names and act like a 5 year old who was just told they can not have candy before dinner because it will spoil their appetite. Anyway, to uninstall the driver in Ubuntu, from the console: sudo rmmod ehci_hcd .

Once that is done you should be good to go. Let me know if you have troubles and I will try and help you out.

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