Emulation

[Pedro Morales]

thanks for the answers, using vnware at college now,
tho my goal was running windows programs in linux or
at least learn if a shell is doable to run a windows
program under linux without emulating, but I'll keep
looking =)

wine looks good, so ill keep checking that.

--- Andrew Kelly <akelly at transparency.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 00:50, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> > >>-----Original Message-----
> > >>From: Rick Stevens
> [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] 
> > >>Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:45 PM
> > >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > >>Subject: Re: Emulation
> > >>
> > >>"vmware" is a commercial product which allows
> you to run 
> > >>Windows and Linux in two virtual machines
> simultaneously.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > More than 2 though, last I was using it, I had 5
> VMWARE virtual machines
> > > running.  All talking ontheir own private
> emulated network and test
> > > environment. Yes.. I know.. I'm a dork.
> > 
> > (no comment on the last tidbit :-D )
> > 
> > And you're not limited to some Windows variant and
> Linux...there's lots
> > of OSes that vmware supports.  I don't own it or
> have a lot of
> > experience with it, but on most accounts it works
> pretty well.
> > 
> > win4lin works, but there are memory limits on the
> Windows session (I
> > think it's 256MB in the current release) and you
> need a tweaked kernel
> > for it.  They (Netraverse) do a pretty good job of
> having ready-to-go
> > downloadable kernels, but they're not current with
> the latest ones.  If
> > you want the absolute latest kernel, you need to
> patch the source and
> > build it yourself.  Not a horrible job, but not
> one for amateurs or the
> > faint of heart.
> 
> FWIW, I can more or less 'vouch' for this one, with
> the caveats that
> Rick has listed. It's head and shoulders above wine
> and a very
> reasonable alternative to the more capable (but more
> expensive) vmware
> products. 
> The memory issues are minimal unless you're
> intentions are to run
> windows as your primary OS sitting on the penguin,
> rather that just
> occasionally running an app. 'Course, if that's you
> tack, you might as
> well just sign up with aol and quit pretending to be
> what you're not,
> right? 
> :-)
> 
> Sorry, couldn't resist.
> 
> The weakness of Win4Lin seems not to be memory so
> much, (although I have
> a bone about paging) as it does rudeness with the
> processor. It's kind
> of like the Rootin' Tootin' Chicken Hawk that thinks
> it bigger and
> tougher than it is. It seems to stay within the
> memory you give it, but
> when it wants the CPU it doesn't understand nice and
> reaches for it all.
> It tends to turn a P IV 3 GHz into much much less at
> times.
> 
> 
> > And yes, I know.  I'm a gigadork (actually, I
> prefer "teranerd").
> 
> Petaspas?
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
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