On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 16:23 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 11:12, Del wrote: > > Howard Lowndes wrote: > > > The subject asks the question. > > > > > > > I like vmware but you need more ram. I've had win4lin working OK > > though. Horses for courses. > > I find vmware pathetically slow. Beside which you need full Windows
You'll need a copy of Windows for Win4Lin. It also doesn't do a full
emulation like VMWare does. So while it's faster it also won't let you
run anything newer than Windows 98 (I believe this is because of MMU
stuff, but I don't actually know that much about this kinda thing so I'm
likely telling you complete lies on that. Does anyone know more?
You might want to look into qemu:
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
Which can run Windows 98 according to this page:
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ossupport.html
I've been tinkering with it over the last few weeks. I've not tried to
install windows on it, but the claim that it's fast is justified. The
really nice thing (to me) is that when the OS inside the virtual machine
is idling, the host system isn't burning cycles emulating the idleness.
I think that's awesome.
Win4Lin will be less setup time though. The installer worked first time
for me the last time I tried it.
HTH,
James.
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