On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:10:20PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 April 2001 14:39, Jack Gillis wrote:
> >
> > Thank you very much for your reply to my question. I looked at both
> > of the sites you mentioned and understood much more of what was said
> > on the Win4lin site than the Vmware site. That in itself is a
> > recommendation <G>.
> >
> > I am not quite sure about one thing, though. As I understand it,
> > Win4lin requires Windows to be installed. Does that mean that
> > Windows is actually running Quicken or whatever? If that is the
> > case, aren't we still left with all the quirks of Windows?
> >
> Lary covered Win4lin, so I will take a shot at VMware. With VMware, you
> are also starting a full windows secesion. (Or other OS - VM ware will
> run more the just Windows.) The main difference is that is you crash
> windows running under VMware, you have just crashed windows. Linux is
> still running fine. You can even Ctrl-Alt-Delete the windows "window"
> withou affecting Linux. You can also suspend the Windows secession.
> You have a complete emulated machine, complete with disk access "LEDs",
> and power and reset "buttons". Unfortunitly, not all of your hardware
> is supported in the VMware, so you can not use things like Winmodems,
> unless there is a Linux driver for it. (But you can use a winprinter
> that connects to a parrelle port.)
>
> There are some downsides to this. VMware uses more memory, and tends to
> be slower, especialy if you are not running in the full screen mode.
> And I have to take time one of these day to figure out how to use
> network and sound when using DOS as the guest OS... It might be
> interesting to see if you could run OS/2 as a guest OS...
Again, sorry if this has been covered, but in addition to win4lin and
vmware, there're also wine and plex86, both of which are free (though
plex86 will require an OS license, and wine can optionally be
configured in a way that'll require one).
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Dan Stromberg UCI/NACS/DCS
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