Re: [SLE] VMWare, again.

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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 07:48:15 -0800

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On Monday 12 January 2004 06:12 am, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:12:49 -0500
>
> Charles <suse-charles@tntscg.com> wrote:
> > Do you like Win4Lin? I currently run CrossoverOffice.. I was
> > wondering which people feel is better...
>
> That depends on your personal needs:
> When using WINE and CrossoverOffice, you are running the Windows
> applications on Linux as if they were native Linux apps. The apps
> think they are running under Windows. Unfortunately, not all Windows
> apps work under WINE of cxoffice. In general, WINE's window
> directories are normally allocated in your home directory (or any
> other Linux native directory tree).
>
> Win4Lin is a virtual machine that runs under Linux. Under Win4Lin you
> are running a full blown copy of Windows 9x. The advantage is that
> Win4Lin can run nearly all Windows9x apps. However, you will take a
> performance hit.

I've not seen much of a performance hit at all, graphics are not always
as fast as native win98 but generally acceptable. I can start a win4lin
winders 98 session followed by word 2000 faster than word 2000 alone
launches under crossover office.

Win4Lins weakness is that they are still not fully directx capable (some
games work, some don't) and sound input is not available though output
works fine. Some of my daughters games don't work and I think that may
be related to some cd protection scheme but I haven't really worked
that hard to find out.

> In general, Win4Lin's files are allocated similar to
> WINE, so you can easily access the files from Linux. Win4Lin costs a
> bit more than CrossoverOffice.

And you need to do a win install on your linux filesystem (ie you need a
win98 install cd). Installation works much better and faster (about 10
minutes for me) under win4lin than it does on fresh hardware.

If you want kernel updates (security etc) then you have to update the
kernel through win4lin. So far crossover hasn't been affected by any
kernel changes I've made, so a little less maintenence there.

> VMWare is a full blown virtual machine system, and can run many
> different operating systems concurrently, such as Windows 2000,
> Windows 9x, Linux, FreeBSD. Other than the cost and performance
> issues, VMWare encapsulates each OS, such that they do not share any
> disk space. VMWare is expensive.

I've found both crossover office and win4lin customer support to be
excellent, If I could only choose 1 product I would go with win4lin.

See ya
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dh
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