Graeme Merrall wrote:
> Well just grabbed the Win4Lin trial version from www.trelos.com and
> apart from not reading the docs properly and having to install Windows
> in Win4Lin again, it seems to work pretty well.
>
> I installed XMetal (my main reason for trying it) and away she went to
> problems. It doesn't quite interact with the filesystem as I expected
> but being able to copy stuff over into /var/win4lin to get it into
> windows was prety handy. Not too mention it follows symlinks. Wee! :)
>
> TCP/IP was no sweat, ran straight out of the box although Windows
> networking is a no-go according to the relase notes. I guess it's hard
> to install File Sharing when there is no network adapter :)
> Oh and you have to patch your kernel...
> <snip>
benefits of VMware TCP/IP network adapter created in software
(when you install windows it comes up with "Hardware detected network
card" dialog box
also no kernal hack needed :) and that is really cool as I run a special
kernal for my ABit motherboard and don't want to hack a kernal just
to use a VM
Stephen Piuk
www.no-violence.org
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