On 12/14/2014 03:03 AM, jdow wrote:
On 2014-12-13 09:16, Yasha Karant wrote:
On 12/13/2014 09:02 AM, Santu Roy wrote:
wine 1.7 does not work in SL7, how can i run windows file in SL7
Assuming you have a license for MS Windows if one is required and
enforced by
your nation state (it is in the USA, EU, etc.), a very effective
alternative is
to load Oracle VirtualBox (licensed for free), load MS Windows under
VirtualBox,
and then install whatever MS Windows applications you need within MS
Windows
under VirtualBox. Unlike Wine that has some issues with executing
various MS
Windows applications, if the application runs in the release of MS
Windows you
have, it will run under MS Windows under Virtual Box.
I'd change that last line to "most likely it will run ..."
Yasha Karant
There are some cheap fun little toys/tools for people who are into
things RF within the 25MHz through 1800 MHz frequency range called
DVB-T dongles. The ones with RTL2832U chips can be used as samplers
for Software Defined Radios.
If you can get one to work on a VirtualBox virtualized machine at its
usual full sample rate capability, 2.4 Msps, please let me know. In my
experience the virtualized USB bus is vastly too slow to work.
This holds with Win7 hosts and SL6.6 hosts and VirtualBox as of about
this time last year when I last played with it.
So I'd say "most likely" without the implied assurance of 100% such as
your turn of phrase suggests.
{^_-} Joanne
Agreed -- I was ignoring hardware and/or driver limitations. There are
cases in which peripheral devices physically will connect to a Linux
machine but for which the VirtualBox peripheral hardware does not exist
or function, and thus will not work. This is the case for almost all
virtual environments unless the host can release the hardware fully to
the guest (including physical machine buses -- typically not allowed).
With this caveat, all typical software applications for MS Windows do
work under the same MS Windows under VirtualBox -- a very different
situation from Wine or CrossOver.
If the peripheral can be mounted via Linux as a file system component
that is in a shared folder with MS Win under VirtualBox, the item
typically can be read and written. This may not work for those
situations under which MS Windows requires/demands full direct access
and control.
Yasha
