Win4Lin Home Edition

[Benjamin Scott]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, at 1:57pm, sconce at in-spec-inc.com wrote:
> I stopped by Win4Lin's booth at LinuxWorld yesterday.  There is now a
> new version of Win4Lin which DOES support W2000 and XP.  It's a deeper
> technology than the DOS-emulation approach used for W9X.  Who knew?

  Well, people who read this list, for one... ;-)

http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/private/gnhlug-discuss/2005-January/009481.html

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, at 5:48pm, bill at bfccomputing.com wrote:
> Just saw it myself today.  One nice aspect of it is they have a way to map
> Windows folders to linux directories ...

  If you mean accessing the host Unix filesystem in the Windows virtual
machine, then yes, and that's been in Win4Lin since before it was Win4Lin.  
You can pick any arbitrary directory path, and make it appear as a "drive 
letter" in Win4Lin.  I've got H:\ for ~/ and U: for / to give me everything.

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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