[ale] A free alternative to VMWare and Win4Lin

[Courtney Thomas]

Thank you.

I stand corrected  :-)

Courtney



Greg wrote:

> The windows on Win4Lin runs in a window/terminal just like an app.  So if it
> dies then you just open up another window or 2 or 3.  Win4Lin both installs
> windows fast (it's just a copy operation as opposed to a huge event) and
> starts/stops running windows (Win4Lin treats windows as another app) rather
> quickly.  In fact I recall someone running some test where apps ran faster
> in Win4Lin than natively on a Windows 98 box.  There is no increasing
> complexity.  All of your windows apps are available on a linux box running
> faster than a VMWare session (but with fewer features).  When I used Win4Lin
> (many yrs ago) I crashed it on purpose and the Linux system remained just
> fine .. and I started up the windows os/app/window again fine.  At that time
> Win4Lin only served up '98.  It was good to use it to run my must-have
> windows apps when I converted to using linux for a month.
> 
> Greg
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> Courtney Thomas
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 9:30 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] A free alternative to VMWare and Win4Lin
> 
> 
> Thank you for the clarification.
> 
> I fail to recognize the merit of this idea of increasing complexity.
> Isn't Winders unstable enough without bringing down both ?
> 
> Why not use a KVM switch and put both, but separate, on a local LAN ?
> 
> Appreciatively,
> 
> Courtney
> 
> 
> 
> Tejus Parikh wrote:
> 
> 
>>I used Win4Lin for a little bit a few years ago.  All it really does is
>>run windows from inside of linux.  When I used it, I installed win98 on
>>it.  Therefore I know that you can run win95 programs as I used to do
>>that quite regularily.  However, I have since forgotten what the support
>>for NT4 is.  One thing to note though is that it's that you actually
>>have to reinstall Windows inside of win4lin (ala VMWare) so you will
>>still have to run windows, but it will be windows running inside of
>>linux.
>>
>>
>>On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:18 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have never used Win4Lin. Can you run Win95 and NT4 programs from it ?
>>>
>>>Thank you,
>>>Courtney
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>James Sumners wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>The latest version is available in the Debian unstable archive. A
>>>>derivative project that sounds particularly intersting is --
>>>>http://darwine.opendarwin.org/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:55:52 -0500 (EST), John Wells
>>>><jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Guys,
>>>>>
>>>>>Thought many of you would find this thread on QEMU interesting:
>>>>>
>>>>>http://slashdot.org/articles/05/02/19/1538231.shtml?tid=190&tid=126&tid=
>>>>>
> 1
> 
>>>>>As a long time Win4Lin customer, I look forward to trying it out and
>>>>>potentially leaving Win98 for windows apps behind!
>>>>>
>>>>>John
>>>>>
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