At 14:34 06/03/2002 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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.
*************************************************************************** I spoke to the Win4Lin people at the NY Linux show at the Javits Center last Jan. or Feb., and they indicated that you have to install Linux, then Win4Lin, and then your Windows programs, in that order. NOT that you could access an existing Windows FS or its directories. I would have thought that they would know. I almost bought the program, until I discovered I would have to reinstall all sorts of things that require a "history" to permit you to do that. (I.e., AutoCad, the upgrades to which require you to have the previous version installed, and a couple of others. I am on about the 1998 edition of AC Lite, even tho there are more.) I would be very interested in hearing from anyone who has installed Win4Lin and is running programs from a previously existing Windows FS, especially if the program calls different subdirectories, etc. (The last time I tried WINE on this problem, it bombed completely.)--doug ******************************************************************************
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.
On 3 Jun 2002 at 10:42, Alfredo Cole wrote:
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El Lun 03 Jun 2002 10:05, escribiste:
Just an FYI: Win4Lin is not really slower than Windows. In many places it's faster. It's also significantly improved since V2. Win4Lin version 4.x supports any of the Win95 products (Win95/98/ME), but not NT/2K/XP.
Win4Lin forces you to upgrade if you upgrade to a newer version of SuSE, whereas VMWare has remained compatible. I can install the same version of VMWare, be it Express 2 or Workstation 3 if I have RH 7.0, Mandrake 8.0, or SuSE 7.2, and it will run. Win4Lin 2 will not install except on RH7.0. I would have to upgrade to a newer version if I want to run SuSE 7.2. VMWare is more expensive, but you can install several operating systems on it, and have more flexibility. Plus it supports USB hardware.
-- Jerry Feldman Enterprise Systems Group Hewlett-Packard Company 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/
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