On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, howard schwartz wrote: > This got me wondering if it is possible to switch between different > OSs, as quickly and easily as one switches from one program or > task to another, using a windows desktop.
If you run VMWare (there are Windows and Linux versions), you can run virtual machines (guest OS's) of several different flavors of Linux, FreeBSD, all the Windows flavors, even DOS 6, switching between Guest systems at will. Note, this does require a lot of RAM. Minimum 128MB, recommended at least 256MB. The website isn't the greatest for info, but the 3MB pdf manual seems to cover pretty much everything. http://www.vmware.com/pdf/ws30_manual.pdf There's also wine, which is a reversed engineered Windows API for Linux. IOW, you can run many Windows programs under Linux. http://www.winehq.com/about.shtml Or you could run an actual alternate OS on an actual machine, and control it and Linux through the same keyboard/monitor/mouse, using VNC, as I shot here: http://twovoyagers.com/IE_Arachne_X.html Their home page is at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ - Steve
