Is there anything cheaper than VMWare that runs Win2k?

John Sampson john.sampson at swirly.net
Thu Jan 29 07:02:10 UTC 2004


I WAS going to suggest wine, but then again - I suppose you would need
the .net framwework so that would be no good.

Theres an app called win4lin - dont know how good it is though. 

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 02:22, Ron Herardian wrote:
> I played with bochs on XP Pro and attempted to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3 but the installer doesn't seem to recognize the emulated hardware.
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> Ron
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> Gregory Woodbury wrote:
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> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:22:55AM -0800, Preston Crawford wrote:
> > > This talk about adding Win2k lately has me thinking. I really hate
> > > dual-booting. Mostly because I hate leaving Linux since that's where my
> > > mail/irc/mp3s, etc. are. So I was wondering. Is there a virtualization
> > > package out there (that works relatively well) that's cheaper than
> > > VMWare and still runs Win2k. I ask that because I'm trying to get a
> > > platform to run ASP.NET on (I'm using Mono currently, but it has issues)
> > > and as far as I know I need at least Win2k for that. Last time I checked
> > > Win4Lin only supported up to Windows ME. What else is there that works?
> > >
> > > Preston
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> > There is "bochs" which runs nearly anything. Slow, but nearly anything.
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> > http://bochs.sourceforge.net
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