Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin vs VMWare

[Jeffrey Borg <jeffrey@nospam.borgs.net>]

it is runs win98second edition (well it's all I could get my hands on,
Toshiba only supply a 300mb disk image on thir recovery cd) and I only
have 64mb ram

It works so well I have tried reiserfs on the legacy fat partition :-)

It's up with wine in terms of speed and basiclly 100% capability so far
(it's winsock failed for vncviewer though!) It's more memory efficient
than netscape on linux at times.

The only downfall is the kernel patches for the kernel on the cd is ok I
patched 2.2.14 BUT I tried to patch 2.2.15 and the patch has lines of code
like this


some code here\
  here is the rest of the line\
   etcccc

the \'s needed to be removed from the source to get the kernel to compile.
(that patch was on the web site of trelos)

Now my only problem with it is the new patch for it is supposed to support
serial ports well I couldn't get my mobile phone utilities working.

My explination of how it works

wine just replaces windows
vmware leaves windows there like a machine
win4lin sort of cuts the "legs" of windows and replaces them! leaving the
rest of windows there to work.

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Jason Rennie 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?
> 
> Win4Lin runs a whole windows desktop in a window under linux. It doesn't
> runa whole virtual machine thought.
> 
> It runs win along side linux with linux memory management  and file
> system. Much more processor and ram friendly than VMware or so i'm told.
> 
> Jason

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