On Wednesday 30 May 2001 08:44 am, Patriiiiiiiiiick wrote:
Hi!
In the near future, I might need to use win2k at the same time as Linux. I was thinking of VMware to accomplish this task. Now I see that there is Win4Lin too... Errrrr... while I was writing this, I thought about an issue: I think that Win4Lin doesn't run win2k but win9x only.
OK, except for that, have some of you compared those two products to run win9x? What is the result?
Thank you!
Patrick
Win4Lin requires some kernel mods (not cool, IMHO) and only runs Win95/98 (again, not cool, IMHO). It will run them at native processor speeds, which *is* cool, IMHO! :-) VMWare doesn't require kernel mods, and will run several different x86 based OS's, including all versions of Windows, BeOS, Linux, and BSD. Probably some others that I can't think of right off of the top of my head. It is also much slower than Win4Lin is, running at roughly 1/2 of your native processor speed. I've never used Win4Lin, as I couldn't get the kernel stuff to compile (this was a long time ago, they are probably better now, so YMMV). I have used VMWare, and it's VERY nice, again IMHO. Good luck! -Steven