RE: OT: Killer App

["Nick Shore" <nick.shore@xxxxxxx>]

For those of you who just want to run Windows 98 on top of Linux, we
have had great success with win4lin. (www.netraverse.com)

A colleague of mine runs this on a dual monitor setup, win 98 on one
monitor
and his X desktop on the other, complete with mouse warping from one to the
other !

Of course you can do this on one monitor with a virtual desktop as well.

Nick.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don McAllister [mailto:donmc@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 00:05
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] OT: Killer App
>
>
> Guys (and Gals),
>
> I know some of you lot have got PCs and Servers in great
> abundance, but some
> of us lesser mortals have to make do with only three or four :-).
> That being
> said, I'm always struggling to load new or different OS on my beasties
> basically cause I hate multi boot configurations.
>
> Stumbled across VMWare. This allows you to run virtual machines
> (VM) on your
> existing Windows 2000, NT or Linux boxes down to the level of having
> individual bios setups for each VM. The virtual machines allows
> you to host
> various OS's in isolation which can be suspended and dumped to a file
for
> virtually instant reload. You can have multiple VMs with different
OS's
> simulataneously. They all share the host ethernet card and create
> a bridged
> network. They can all access the host peripherals.
>
> The suprising thing is it works brilliantly. I've always wanted to
dabble
> with Linux but didn't have a spare machine. With VMWare, I
> created a VM and
> loaded Red hat Linux 6.2 out of the box. Ran Netscape and accessed the
> Internet through Linux no problem. I then created another VM and
loaded
> Windows 98 SE, all hosted on a Windows 2000 Pro box and three OSs
running
> simultaneously with decent performance. VMware provides
> additional tools to
> enable copy & paste between environments and provide enhanced
graphics
> support,
>
> 30 day evaluation copies can be downloaded from www.vmware.com . They
also
> appear to do server versions for production systems to
> consolidate multiple
> servers onto single machines.
>
> Sorry if this sounds like an advert but I'm genuinely impressed with
the
> product and might even stump up the $199 to buy a copy. This may
> be a first
> !!
>
> No association with the company blady blah !!!!
>
> Cheers
> Don
>
>
>
>
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