PE apps on linux, alternative solutions when win4lin breaks

[Maxim Veksler]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM, sara fink <sara.fink at gmail.com> wrote:

> this is nice. googling a little bit about unity in virtual box, it looks
> like there is support for it. I quote "VirtualBox however has some unique
> features such as Seamless Windows (which won't be unique as soon as
> Workstation 6.5 releases with Unity), plus it is Open-Source. "
>
> More details in this link:
> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=4272
>
> BTW, seamless windows appears in the binary version as well. And there you
> have the usb support too.
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Maxim Veksler <maxim.veksler at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> (Replying to myself)
>>
>> OK,
>>
>> Turns out VMWare Workstation have developed the same feature that that
>> I was so excited try in Win4Lin.
>>
>> In VMWare they call it "Unity"
>>
>>
>> http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/04/03/unity-coming-to-vmware-workstation-65/
>>
>> http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2008/04/02/workstation-65-beta-1-now-with-100-more-unity/
>>
>> This is very good for me, both productivity wise and performance wise
>> - Although a full XP will be running in the background I will turn off
>> all services it has and will not be displaying it's desktop so memory
>> and cpu resources will not be wasted on it.
>>
>> Now all I need to do is get it working :)
>>
>>
>> I wonder if XEN or VirtualBox have this feature as well ?
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Maxim Veksler
>>
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>>
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>
Another tip for people coming to this post from google.

Do not use Windows XP, Use Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs.

See this comment
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1008275&cid=25518407
Then this wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Fundamentals_for_Legacy_PCs
Then this torrent http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3659362/WinFLP

-- 
Cheers,
Maxim Veksler

"Free as in Freedom" - Do u GNU ?
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