I just find it while browsing ubuntu dapper guide today http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper, it's a very nice powerfull tool to run windows 9x, me, nt and xp on linux, u can say good bye to dual boot if u have this tool, u can run windows and all its applications from linux using this software, the problem is it's not free as we used to when using linux and most of its applications, i know it's not so expensive it's for 69.99$ as it appears on thier website http://www.win4lin.com/
my question : is there any other software "free one" that does the same work?, if anyone has a solution like this please post it here for importance, i need it on my network as most people here use windows, while we have so much work on our lovely Linux.

well... no, but WINE is pretty good but w/ out the need to actually install Windows or get VMWare.

xboxrulz

QUOTE(xboxrulz @ Jul 30 2006, 06:54 AM)

well... no, but WINE is pretty good but w/ out the need to actually install Windows or get VMWare.

xboxrulz

WINE is a pretty good for runing "some" aplications, but it doesn't run all windows applications, specially these which we need, we are stocks, metals and FOREX traders, so we need to run our trading applications such as Meta Trader 4, Meta Stock 9, Mubasher Stocks Terminal, Microsoft Money 2006 and much more of this kind of applications that we are working on, ofcourse Linux is the best but still we need that **** called microsoft windows because not all companies have the abillity to make applications that could run on Linux platforms, sooner or later, they should make it or they will not be able to continue serving that increasing number of people using Linux, till that day we will be forced to use windows or to search for applications such as Win4Lin to run our work, so still searching for it and any help in that will be appricated.

erm, Vmware is free, Qemu is free, why paying for Win4lin if there are free alternatives (one former commercial even !).

The real problem is, this is stupid ... because you run linux and you're using windows, what's wrong in this picture and it will run slow, both OS will run slow, because you'll need at least 256Mb of RAM for the virtual machine on wich windows is running (you can go lower, but then you'll heavily rely on the hdd)

It's not a matter of hardware or a matter of stupidty, it's a matter of needing to get both system working all together, i'm not a windows lover, but as i explained i'm forced to use it, i hope that VMware is able to have windows and all its applications installed, i'll go make a try now.

Vmware is free for testing purposes, for a limited time if you have a testing lincence. then vmware stops working and you have to purchase a full licence. Besides that, it's very useful if you want to use Windows applications without rebooting your Linux system. I also use it when I need to use Win98 applications which don't work correctly under WinXP.

VMWare server is free and it works JUST like VMWare Workstation

xboxrulz

QUOTE(xboxrulz @ Aug 8 2006, 05:19 AM)

VMWare server is free and it works JUST like VMWare Workstation

xboxrulz

I need to know more about VMWare server before i set it up, do i need to setup windows xp after i setup VMWare such like Win4Lin?, or does VMWare acts like a platform so i just set up windows applications on it such as WINE?

no, you need to install Windows XP inside VMWare. It just pretends to be another computer inside your computer.

xboxrulz