Anyone using Win4Lin Pro? (V5 I think)

[Tom Buskey]

On 8/10/05, puissante <puissante at lrc.puissante.com> wrote:
> hewitt_tech wrote:
> > Because we have certain applications that will only run under Windows, I
> > was thinking about picking up a copy of Win4Lin Pro. Is anyone using it
> > and if so, what are your impressions?
> >
> > -Alex
> >

> If you need USB, you may be better off with VMWare, which at least
> supports one port, or so I'm told.

It supports at least 2, maybe more.  I haven't tried it beyond that. 
It also supports SCSI, serial and parallel devices.


> 
> A nice thing about W4L is being able to keep a backup copy of its "hard
> drive" -- just a big 2 or 4G file on the Linux side. Get hit with a
> virus or something screws up your system? No problem! Just copy the hard
> drive backup file over the live one.

Same w/ VMware.  Version 5 does snapshots too.  And you can setup a
group of systems in a private network together too.


> Oh, it allows you seamless access to your Linux file system in your
> login account which is where you'll want to keep everything, since it is
> limited on the HD space on the virtual drive.

I remember the old win4lin being better then vmware there.

> 
> -Fred


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