On Wednesday 18 April 2001 14:39, Jack Gillis wrote:
>
> Thank you very much for your reply to my question. I looked at both
> of the sites you mentioned and understood much more of what was said
> on the Win4lin site than the Vmware site. That in itself is a
> recommendation <G>.
>
> I am not quite sure about one thing, though. As I understand it,
> Win4lin requires Windows to be installed. Does that mean that
> Windows is actually running Quicken or whatever? If that is the
> case, aren't we still left with all the quirks of Windows?
>
Lary covered Win4lin, so I will take a shot at VMware. With VMware, you
are also starting a full windows secesion. (Or other OS - VM ware will
run more the just Windows.) The main difference is that is you crash
windows running under VMware, you have just crashed windows. Linux is
still running fine. You can even Ctrl-Alt-Delete the windows "window"
withou affecting Linux. You can also suspend the Windows secession.
You have a complete emulated machine, complete with disk access "LEDs",
and power and reset "buttons". Unfortunitly, not all of your hardware
is supported in the VMware, so you can not use things like Winmodems,
unless there is a Linux driver for it. (But you can use a winprinter
that connects to a parrelle port.)
There are some downsides to this. VMware uses more memory, and tends to
be slower, especialy if you are not running in the full screen mode.
And I have to take time one of these day to figure out how to use
network and sound when using DOS as the guest OS... It might be
interesting to see if you could run OS/2 as a guest OS...
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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