Re: Win4Lin - yet another virtual machine to run Windows

2000-11-27 Thread Mike Smith
I spoke to these folks at Linuxworld about 18 months ago. AFAIR, their product is basically a port of SCO's DOS/Merge, and the ABI between the userspace and kernelspace components is fairly well understood. The amount of work involved in making it run on FreeBSD would probably be

Re: Win4Lin - yet another virtual machine to run Windows

2000-11-27 Thread The Hermit Hacker
well, I sent in my vote for a FreeBSD port ... if I can avoid having to reboot into Windows so that I can use some of the win business apps, and all for $100, I'd be happy ... On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Mike Smith wrote: I spoke to these folks at Linuxworld about 18 months ago. AFAIR, their

Re: Win4Lin - yet another virtual machine to run Windows

2000-11-27 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Mike Smith wrote: I spoke to these folks at Linuxworld about 18 months ago. AFAIR, their product is basically a port of SCO's DOS/Merge, and the ABI between the userspace and kernelspace components is fairly well understood. The amount of work involved in

Re: Win4Lin - yet another virtual machine to run Windows

2000-11-27 Thread Mike Smith
I spoke to these folks at Linuxworld about 18 months ago. AFAIR, their product is basically a port of SCO's DOS/Merge, and the ABI between the userspace and kernelspace components is fairly well understood. The amount of work involved in making it run on FreeBSD would probably be

Re: Win4Lin - yet another virtual machine to run Windows

2000-11-27 Thread Mike Nowlin
It's unlikely that plex86 will make VMware or Trelos' product "moot discussions" anytime soon; Bochs/Freemware/Plex86 is a credible start, but would have a great deal of ground to cover before getting to that point. I got it! FreeBSD running Bochs running VMware running Linux running