__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Thursday 22 March 2007 15:32 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:14:29 +0000
> <2270258.edaWHlsPc9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Running Windows Under Ubuntu 7.04
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn also includes a new version of rdesktop
>> | that can be used to start individual desktop apps from the VM on
>> | your normal desktop. See SeamlessVirtualization.
>> `----
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo
>>
>> Another leap that could make dual-booting obsolete.
>
> That makes four.
>
> [1] QEMU. Actually, a useful if slightly slow tool. I used
> it to set up a FreeBSD partition, for example, and can use
> it to emulate a computer for the purposes of evaluating
> bootable CD's.
>
> [2] VmWare.
>
> [3] WinE/Cedega/etc.
>
> [4] DOSBox. It of course emulates DOS.
>
> I'd add UML but it's still not compiling for me. Sigh.
This one is similar to SSH with X forwarding, which is nice. Transparent use
of windows that are being imported from elsewhere. Personally I have no use
for this, but a few years back I was using rdesktop for a few minutes every
week ($Employer's fault, now gone Web-based).
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