Can be done?

[Nog]

If MAC OS-X can run on BSD, why can't Windows run on Linux? I wouldn't mind
having Windows XP or Vista as a program under Linux. If you could write a
program in Linux to clone a virtual machine that looks like a regular PC to
Windows it would work I think.

[Conor]

In article <R5gTf.1733$8G2.1178@trndny01>, Nog says...

> If MAC OS-X can run on BSD, why can't Windows run on Linux? I wouldn't mind
> having Windows XP or Vista as a program under Linux. If you could write a
> program in Linux to clone a virtual machine that looks like a regular PC to
> Windows it would work I think.
>

VMWare, WINE, Cedega.


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Conor,

Same shit, different day.

[Stephen J. Rush]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:59:29 +0000, Nog wrote:

> If MAC OS-X can run on BSD, why can't Windows run on Linux? I wouldn't mind
> having Windows XP or Vista as a program under Linux. If you could write a
> program in Linux to clone a virtual machine that looks like a regular PC to
> Windows it would work I think.

OS-X is really FreeBSD with an Apple shell, so it's not that hard to get
Unix or Linux apps to run in it. Windows is a whole different developnent
path. There are API translators like Wine and Cedega that let you run
some Windows applications in a Linux system. There are also virtual
machines like Bochs that simulate an Intel processor, on which you can
install Windows, but that means buying a copy of Windows. It also means
wasting a _LOT_ of processor cycles if you're emulating an Intel processor
on a later Intel processor. Windows Vista will probably be such a CPU hog
that it won't run in an emulated machine, assuming that its DRM will let
it even boot in a system that isn't registered with Microsoft. If you
really need both *nix and Windows Vista, get another box and add it to
your LAN.

[Mark South]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 13:48:28 -0500, Stephen J. Rush wrote:

> OS-X is really FreeBSD with an Apple shell,

And a Mach kernel, unlike in *BSD.

> so it's not that hard to get
> Unix or Linux apps to run in it.

Provided you know how to write an efficient Linux compatibility layer.
Some (most) BSDs have this.

> Windows is a whole different developnent
> path. ...(snip)...

> If you really need both *nix and Windows Vista, get another box and add
> it to your LAN.

Good advice.
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