[SOLVED] Run Windows and Linux processes at the same time
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Dear forummembers,
I was wondering if it was possible to continue some of your linux (backtrack 5) processes while actively using windows (7) and vice versa?
Thanks in advance!
FortuneCookie
Last edited by FortuneCookie; 10-31-2011 at 07:54 AM.
You can only run more than one OS simultaneously if you use some kind of virtualization. So if you install a virtual machine in Backtrack and install 7 into a VM, then yes, you can do that. The only other way that would come to my mind is to install Windows programs with Wine in Linux.
Last edited by TobiSGD; 10-30-2011 at 12:49 PM.
Reason: fixed grammar error
Changed the spelling error. Forgive me for my spelling mistakes, English is not my native language.
Does that VirtualBox runs one OS into another or does it run processes of the other while running the other? I just need one proces to be running since I want to launch a bruteforce attack (on my own systems as security check) with BT5.
Is using a Virtual Box required advanced knowledge?
Changed the spelling error. Forgive me for my spelling mistakes, English is not my native language.
Does that VirtualBox runs one OS into another or does it run processes of the other while running the other? I just need one proces to be running since I want to launch a bruteforce attack (on my own systems as security check) with BT5.
Is using a Virtual Box required advanced knowledge?
Thanks in advance
FortuneCookie
It runs the entire OS. Keep in mind that a brute force attack by definition always will be succesfull.
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