Subject: Re: Captive NTFS Read System
From: Tim Johnson (tim@johnsons-web.com)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 13:25:41 AKST
* Joshua Kugler <jk@as.uaf.edu> [040115 11:21]:
>
> On Sunday 07 December 2003 05:46 pm, Tim Johnson wrote:
> > And to conclude, I emailed him back to say (as far as I know) win4lin
> > is sort of a wine-styled API, but Jamie H might want to step in
> > here, 'cuz I believe he's pretty familiar with vmware.
> >
>
> Win4Lin is really neither Wine nor VMWare. It provides a virtual DOS
> environment (kind of) in which Windows 9x/ME can run. It does not provide a
I have Win4Lin 5.0 installed and have used it since ver 1.0.
I'm not sure what you mean about a virtual DOS environment. Windows
does not boot from DOS. DOS boots from window - has since win95
perhaps 'virtual windows environment' is more like.
> "ground up" virtual machine like VMWare, nor does it "emulate" windows. You
I haven't taken the time to set up Win4Lin with a seperate I.P.
address, but it does provide that feature. (called vnet, I think)
When I experimented with Wine earlier in its evolution, (and I
may be clumsy with my words, knowledge or memory here) it seemed that
each windows program booted independantly.
In the case of win4lin - it's 'virtually' a windows desktop, although
and system expert may define it differently, one does in effect
have Windows co-existing in real time with Linux and sharing the
same filesystem.
Very nice. Beats dual-boot or switching machines.
But the last time that I checked, Netraverse had not yet solved
the issue of exploiting XP.
tim
> actually install a full version of windows under Win4Lin, and it runs a
> windows session, under which you run applications.
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