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[Alfredo Cole <alfredo@xxxxxxxx>]

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El Lun 03 Jun 2002 12:34, escribiste:
> VMWare is also an excellent product. VMWare is a fully functional
> Virtual Machine Architecture where you can run multiple versions of
> Linux, BSD, Windows 9x and Windows NT.
> Win4Lin, on the otherhand is a Linux application that acts as a
> container for Windows.
>
> The advantage of Win4Lin is that it uses the existing Linux file
> system such that the entire Windows directory is easily accessable
> to Linux.
>
> In a corporate environment, VMWare has an advantage because it can
> run Windows NT (eg. 2K and XP). (Please correct me if my info is
> not up to date). Each OS under VMWare uses its own file system
> which is not directly accessable to another OS, but while I have
> not tried this, I suspect that a running Windows 2K and Linux could
> share files via SMB/Samba.

I have access to my native Linux filesystem under VMWare. It's a 
configuration option. I run it under SuSE 7.2 since I still have 
software which I developed using BC++ 5.02 and Borland Builder. I 
could never get BC++ 5 to compile anything with Win4Lin.

Regards.

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Alfredo J. Cole
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http://www.clshonduras.com (Linux Hardware)
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