Win4Lin

[Magnus Andersen]

Hi All,

Does anyone have any experience with win4lin?  I'm thinking about
running FC 6 on my new laptop with win4lin for the applications I need
to have in a Windows environment.  I've use VMWare Workstation/Server
before, but I like that win4lin stores my documents/scripts in the
Linux environment and not on a virtual workstation.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Thanks,

[Robert Anderson]

On 10/2/06, Magnus Andersen  wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone have any experience with win4lin?  I'm thinking about
> running FC 6 on my new laptop with win4lin for the applications I need
> to have in a Windows environment.  I've use VMWare Workstation/Server
> before, but I like that win4lin stores my documents/scripts in the
> Linux environment and not on a virtual workstation.
>
> Any thoughts are appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Systems Administrator / Oracle DBA
> Walker & Associates, Inc.
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I have not used win4lin. I have used Crossover (
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/) and wine (
http://www.winehq.com/), both of which provide windows API on linux, rather
than an emulator for booting into a windows.

[Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 14:16 -0400, Magnus Andersen wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone have any experience with win4lin?  I'm thinking about
> running FC 6 on my new laptop with win4lin for the applications I need
> to have in a Windows environment.  I've use VMWare Workstation/Server
> before, but I like that win4lin stores my documents/scripts in the
> Linux environment and not on a virtual workstation.

In VMWare, you can install VMWare-tools (I remember it was a menu entry
on the bar). then, on vmware, share some directories.

VMWare-tools allow you to open from your explorer windows this entry:

.host/

so, you can access your shared directories.

Greets!

[Paul Smith]

On 10/2/06, Rodolfo Alcazar  wrote:
> > Does anyone have any experience with win4lin?  I'm thinking about
> > running FC 6 on my new laptop with win4lin for the applications I need
> > to have in a Windows environment.  I've use VMWare Workstation/Server
> > before, but I like that win4lin stores my documents/scripts in the
> > Linux environment and not on a virtual workstation.
>
> In VMWare, you can install VMWare-tools (I remember it was a menu entry
> on the bar). then, on vmware, share some directories.
>
> VMWare-tools allow you to open from your explorer windows this entry:
>
> .host/
>
> so, you can access your shared directories.

VMware Server can also share directories through samba.

Paul

[Khoa Ton]

Magnus Andersen wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone have any experience with win4lin?  I'm thinking about
> running FC 6 on my new laptop with win4lin for the applications I need
> to have in a Windows environment.  I've use VMWare Workstation/Server
> before, but I like that win4lin stores my documents/scripts in the
> Linux environment and not on a virtual workstation.
>
> Any thoughts are appreciated.

I haven't tried Win4Lin either, but regarding your VMWare issue
of file being stored on the VM, I have it so that the "My Documents"
on the VM for my user is mapped to
"//REALMACHINE/USERNAME/My Documents", and on REALMACHINE, I share
my USERNAME home directory (Samba autoshares).  This is done with the
"Move My Documents" operation on Windows XP in the VM.  No noticeable
performance issues for normal everyday operations.

Khoa