Vmware - Win4lin

[vinceoconnor]

I am trying to run windows based (win32) applications within Linux (ext3), and have had some very good luck so far. But everything that I have tried has needed to install the Windows OS to install the applications.

Does anyone know of anything (not including WINE) that will allow me to install just the Windows based application w/o installing Windows on my FC3 box?

[MCT]

crossover office

[vinceoconnor]

crossover office is good for office, however, I'm trying to find a solution that will install any windows based software.

[prathapml]

hey, I get what you mean - but where does VMware figure in this!

As for apps, CrossOver is indeed your best bet. Most apps will install and run fine with it.

Then there's Cedega (formerly WineX) - for directX games.

Both are commercialised WINE.

[vinceoconnor]

well vmware, allows virtual file systems to be installed, and on those virtual file systems, you can add software. The down side is that you must install the OS to establish the windows file system before you can install any software. What i'm trying to do is just build the file system enough to support and properly run an application without running the entire OS.

This whole thing might be just a pipe dream, but i thought I would ask arround before writing it off.

[prathapml]

Its very well possible.

Why, lot of people have been doing it since years. That's the very reason these projects survive.

But I suggest non-free projects (such as cedega) is a better bet since you can ask the devs to support a specific app which won't work for you. Personally, I'm yet to come across any small utility that won't work in cedega - and big apps the developers are so committed that almost any app you try running will install and run fine.

NOTE:

VMware still doesn't figure in any of this.

[Ge0ph]

What you want to do is what the Wine developers have been working on.