[ltp] [Slightly OT] : VMware.

[Robert Hollis]

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Crispin Cowan <crispin@wirex.com>@bm-soft.com on 05/07/2001 02:53:05 AM

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VMWare does require a MS license for the guest OS (from www.vmware.com).
other alternatives are Wine (from www.winehq.org) is an implementation of
the windows api' s under linux and plex86.

sylvestre meininger wrote:

> I just read Michael Geary's post about VMware on the TP Mailing LIst and
I
> have a rather simple question :
> The correct version of VMware will enable you to use Windows software
under
> Linux. But do you actually need to have a MS operating system installed
> somewhere ? Or is VMware a true emulator ?

No, you do not need a real Windows install on the hardware:  VMWare is a
true
emulator.  I have VMWare installed, using a 500 MB virtual drive, and run
NT
4.0 SP6 on top of that.  I use it daily for access to MS Office and Adobe
Frame Maker on my otherwise Linux TP 770.

You *can* get VMWare to actually access & use a Windows install on the
native
hardware, but it is tricky.  The trick is that the VMWare emulator presents
different hardware than the native hardware does, and so you need to use a
Windows feature that (I'm told) is called "profiles" that lets Windows boot
different hardware.  I don't understand this, and don't use it, so don't
ask
me how to do it :-)


> Second, I heard something about another "emulator" which, from what I
> understood, was free. Does anything like this actually exist ?

That would be Plex86  http://www.plex86.org/ previously known as
"Freemware"
:-)

Crispin

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