running Linux at work with Windows apps

[Scott Prive]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gaf at blu.org]
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 1:14 PM
> To: Greater NH Linux User Group
> Subject: Re:running Linux at work with Windows apps
> 
> 
> Another advantage of Win4Lin over VMWare is that the Windows 
> directories 
> are installed within a Linux directory tree, so the files are 
> all available 
> directly from Linux. 
> Correct me if I am wrong, but AFAIK, under VMWare, each OS is 
> in its own 
> container, and cannot share files directly (but can export 
> and import via 
> NFS and SMB). 

Additionally,  VMWare clients can be given their own, wholly-owned disk partition which does not rely on the host OS for disk services. For example, using VMware for Linux, one could run Windows NT as a VM, and directly read/write an NTFS partition.

Native partition support in vmware seems to be tricky -- and dangerous -- but I suppose it gives an additional perf boost (I don't use it).

I haven't tried Win4Lin... I need full-blown Windows sandboxes for testing, not individual applications. I just completed a project where I would be running up to sessions of VMware simultaneously. Storing several compressed configurations of VMWare'd Windows on a single DVD-R is a *nice* boost for Linux-Windows interoperability testing. :-)


> On 11 Nov 2002 at 11:17, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> >   Also check out Win4Lin from NeTraverse.  It only supports 
> Win95/98/ME (not
> > NT/2000/XP), and does not provide as complete an emulation 
> as VMware, but at
> > the same time, it has a significantly smaller performance penalty.  
> > Depending on what you want to do, one may be better than the other.
> 
> -- 
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Associate Director
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
> http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9
> PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
> 
> _______________________________________________
> gnhlug-discuss mailing list
> gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
> 
>