[ale] A free alternative to VMWare and Win4Lin

Greg runman at speedfactory.net
Sat Feb 19 23:47:40 EST 2005


The windows on Win4Lin runs in a window/terminal just like an app.  So if it
dies then you just open up another window or 2 or 3.  Win4Lin both installs
windows fast (it's just a copy operation as opposed to a huge event) and
starts/stops running windows (Win4Lin treats windows as another app) rather
quickly.  In fact I recall someone running some test where apps ran faster
in Win4Lin than natively on a Windows 98 box.  There is no increasing
complexity.  All of your windows apps are available on a linux box running
faster than a VMWare session (but with fewer features).  When I used Win4Lin
(many yrs ago) I crashed it on purpose and the Linux system remained just
fine .. and I started up the windows os/app/window again fine.  At that time
Win4Lin only served up '98.  It was good to use it to run my must-have
windows apps when I converted to using linux for a month.

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
Courtney Thomas
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 9:30 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] A free alternative to VMWare and Win4Lin


Thank you for the clarification.

I fail to recognize the merit of this idea of increasing complexity.
Isn't Winders unstable enough without bringing down both ?

Why not use a KVM switch and put both, but separate, on a local LAN ?

Appreciatively,

Courtney



Tejus Parikh wrote:

> I used Win4Lin for a little bit a few years ago.  All it really does is
> run windows from inside of linux.  When I used it, I installed win98 on
> it.  Therefore I know that you can run win95 programs as I used to do
> that quite regularily.  However, I have since forgotten what the support
> for NT4 is.  One thing to note though is that it's that you actually
> have to reinstall Windows inside of win4lin (ala VMWare) so you will
> still have to run windows, but it will be windows running inside of
> linux.
>
>
> On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:18 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
>
>>I have never used Win4Lin. Can you run Win95 and NT4 programs from it ?
>>
>>Thank you,
>>Courtney
>>
>>
>>
>>James Sumners wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The latest version is available in the Debian unstable archive. A
>>>derivative project that sounds particularly intersting is --
>>>http://darwine.opendarwin.org/
>>>
>>>
>>>On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:55:52 -0500 (EST), John Wells
>>><jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Guys,
>>>>
>>>>Thought many of you would find this thread on QEMU interesting:
>>>>
>>>>http://slashdot.org/articles/05/02/19/1538231.shtml?tid=190&tid=126&tid=
1
>>>>
>>>>As a long time Win4Lin customer, I look forward to trying it out and
>>>>potentially leaving Win98 for windows apps behind!
>>>>
>>>>John
>>>>
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