Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin vs VMWare

["[-SwM-]" <swm@nospam.zip.com.au>]

Hey John,

Win4Lin actually runs Windows, which is what it really has over VMWare.
This means speed is drastically increased. 

VMWare is trying to do something different to Win4Lin: emulate operating
systems -- not just windows, but many, in a virtual environment. My
understanding of Wine is that it is a specific *windows* emulator -- that
is, it emulates the windows environment for a windows application to run
in it.

I have reviewed Win4Lin, though not inlight of VMWare and Wine:
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/article.php3?tid=8&aid=5


Gavin Sherry
LinuxWorld.com.au Editor

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On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, John Ferlito wrote:

> 	Has anyone tried both these products? How do they compare. I've used vmware and it emulates the whole x86 system so it's fairly slow. Does Win4Lin work like wine, ie just runs win apps? rather than windows itself. How do they compare to wine for instance?
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