Tim, Bochs is somewhat slow, but very interesting and easy to try for yourself. Vmware is a resource hog, but Win4Lin is easy on resources. There was a good review and comparison on zdnet recently. As I recall, you can run multiple windows sessions in Win4Lin, but you need a license for each pc. I've never tried a cad program with Win4Lin; most programs worked pretty well on Win4Lin v1.0 and v2.0. I had problems connnecting to samba shares through Win4lin, but those things are supposedly fixed in v.3.0 Win4Lin requires a custom-compiled kernel with their proprietary hooks in it. They provide a few binary kernels, which are always out of date. If you use their patches on a newer kernel, it may or may not work. In short, it's a hassle, and based on their release history, I get the feeling that nettraverse isn't even trying to support the newest kernels and the newest distributions. If the problem is "How can I run windows programs (once in awhile!) without rebooting?", then I think the best solution is to have two PC's. You might check out mro's setup, it's about the best I've seen for using one keyboard, one mouse, one monitor, and two boxes. Ralph At 11:36 PM 9/5/2001 -0700, Timothy Bolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anyone played around with Boch? It's a PC x86 emulator. >http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ >If you have what did you think of it. >I'm running potato and was wondering if woody has it included in it. The >screen shots look good but they're just screen shots. > >Or Has anyone tried Plex86? >Let me know. > >Has anyone tried the new win4lin 3.0? > >If you tried them how are they on resources. I guess I could try boch - >plex86 and try freebsd or openbsd? :-) > >I wonder if you could use boch or plex to run windows to run a cad program? >The stability of Linux and running windows. I wonder if you could run >multiple instances of windows? >
