Hello Jerry,
There is nothing on the win4lin website yet.
You might remember that it took win4lin some time before they were able
to support 2000 and XP.
This was because the former version of win4lin was written for ms dos
based Windows 3.1, 95 and 98 versions.
They had to rewrite a lot of code before they were able to support 2000
and XP. I guess a decision has been made by win4lin to port only the new
code, which has been written for the 2000 and XP guest oses, to sparc.
We were talking about the possibility to port to sparc 5 years ago when
they only supported ms dos based Windows versions. I have seen these
guys work and I can imagine they kept the port to sparc in mind when
they wrote there new code for 2000 and XP. Somehow I don't belief this
will be crap.
Some things might be hard or impossible to support on sparc. For
instance Direct X will probably be a problem. It has always been hard to
work around it but maybe they have found some workable solution....
I also have to wait and see...
Ivar
Craig Bender wrote:
Ivar has a special relationship w/ the Virtual Bridges (fka Win4Lin
fka NetraVerse folks). Just Google Sun Ray and NetraVerse and you'll
find his old company.
I'm currently 1) Trying to get more Sun folks excited about this 2)
Working with some of our "SunFed" folks in seeing what this can do for
our Trusted Solaris install base and 3) Waving the pom poms.
You...The "community" can do a lot by sending VB notes of support.
You can see what the software is capable of by poking around
http://qemu.org/ if you want.
Of course there is far more to Win4Solaris than just qemu as Xen uses
parts of qemu too.
BTW, a SPARC port of Win4Solaris is being worked on. It might be
awesome, it might be crap. But they are doing it. More than we can
say about other ISV's (Cough cough....Cit...Spat, sputter, rix)
Jerry Kemp wrote:
I am still waiting for/to hear more details. At some point in the
future, I would like to do at least a couple of of different
operating systems in a virtualized environment, using Solaris as a
host system.
Work also appears to be moving along swiftly with the Xen hypervisor
on Solaris also. From an earlier note from Craig (see at the
bottom), it appears that this technology, at least from a networking
perspective, is primarily focused on windows.
From a windows perspective, I have only one application that I need
to run, but have other applications that I need to run from other
operating systems.
At this point, might a planned course of attack be to use this
technology (Win4Lin/Solaris) to get windows operational, or, if a
person was planning to make uses of Xen, be to install all
virtualized operating systems under Xen?
Ivar, you have mentioned that this will be available for windows 2000
and xp guest. Where can I read more about this? I went tho the
win4lin home page ( http://www.win4lin.com/ ) and nothing is
mentioned about Solaris, even after using their search.
Thank you,
Jerry Kemp
Ivar Janmaat wrote:
This is Win4lin Pro on Solaris.
I have been informed it will be available for windows 2000 and XP
guest OS only.
The host OS will be Solaris 10 and Solaris Express 11.
Hardware will be i386 and amd64 and in the future even sparc (with
some limitations).
I am impressed! Nice work!
As the video shows it will be better with multimedia than rdp based
terminal services.
This was some discussion earlier which is now addressed properly.
Kind regards,
Ivar
===================================================
QEMU (and KQEMU) has the ability to support many OS's, but as for
Virtual bridges and their other included technology (i.e. Merge) is
focused on Windows interoperability.
Jerry Kemp wrote:
Will this strictly be a DOS+windows thing, or will other x86 OS's
work also??
Thanks,
Jerry
Craig Bender wrote:
Glad you like it!
I'm hoping to put some pointers out to early access by next week.
Thomas L Baca wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:51:25 -0800, Craig Bender
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> http://blogs.sun.com/ThinGuy/entry/coming_soon
Ah! That, together with your jigsaw puzzle from earlier today,
paints
a very interesting picture. Hadn't quite figured out the puzzle
message, but now the light begins to dawn on me.
Wow!
cheers,
-tom
p.s. So, how soon is "[not] much longer" and "soon"? :-)
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