Emulate Windows XP on Linux
I've tried searching around for something on this topic but I haven't come up with anything. I'm looking to emulate (I don't want to use Wine for this or Crossover Office) WinXP Home on my Kubuntu 5.04 install. My question is is there a good freeware app to do this job (I've seen Win4Lin Pro already), such as QEMU or Boches? Are there any others? Also I've tried to set up both of them in the past and its proven quite difficult, are there any good guides or tools to make it easier? If XP won't run on any of these are there any that will run 2000 or 98?
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why don't u just use windows then? :S
i don't understand why ppl wanna have linux installed but then want to use windows applications... everything that u have in windows u have in linux os but with other names :S good luck with your bill gates emulation |
I understand the desire to use proprietary applications for which no Linux alternative is available. I have used QEmu to run Win XP (though it was slow, this was on a crappy testing machine) and Win 2k with no problems.
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And even the substitution most people use, i. e. OpenOffice for Microsoft W'ord, isn't 100 % compatible (using 1.1.4) . If you get for example a Word document with enumerated lists it's annoying that OpenOffice changes the layout of these lists (and no, it doesn't look better for me). So there may exist good reasons to install Linux and Windows. |
I personally would cut a small chunk of your hard drive and install Windows for specific applications. I do this, and it has worked better for me, as far as not having to mess with buggy programs doing something they aren't supposed to, and others I use like Photoshop CS2 are not supported by ANY crossover programs. If you have to run Windows on Linux, and it is imparitive that it runs well, I would suggest VMWare. I have used Linux in Windows, and Windows in Windows with it, and it works great.
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Yes, of course :)
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I agree with the others ... this does not sound too productive to me.
If you need Windows-XP, then by all means buy it. You can have several computers, each one running the "appropriate" operating-system for whatever it "does for a living," and that, when the end of the day is reached, is the only name of the game. |
well if u prefer to spend houndreds of €s in software... just install windows.... u can work in everything with linux.. just have to know how.. there are millions of alternatives... i'll post here a link with the similar programs between wxp and linux when i get home.. i didn't memorized it.
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http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-l...en/table.shtml |
oh yeah.. thats it!
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Where I need my macro is a RDP connection to another computer. When the connection is established I have to to some inputs on the distant computer. So I wrote a macro that a) waits until the window with the connection is in the foreground b) sends the about 40 keystrokes, simulating that I type them in by hand If you have any suggestion to do this, please :). And if you know of a program under Linux that is able to do this PLUS mouse movements and actions, your help would be highly appreciated :D titopoquito |
There's expect (yes, it's ugly):
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/usr/doc/expect-5.41/example]$ less telnet-cwd a window to get focus, but you get the general idea. Cheers, Tink |
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