Linux emulator for winblows?

hunterhunter · 02-16-2006, 01:35 PM

Is there something I can download that would "emulate" Linux on windows?
Or better yet.

I'm trying to configure rsync, and don't know if I can test it while I'm on the same login.

So my real question would be; If I set up rsync on a Linux machine, how would I go about testing it while staying logged into the same o/s?

Thanks

Pardon my newbieness...

oneandoneis2 · 02-16-2006, 01:59 PM

Cygwin & qemu are both good ways to get Linux apps running under Windows

hunterhunter · 02-16-2006, 02:49 PM

It's not necessarily the Linux apps that I want working. I'd just like to be able to install and test rsync on a Linux machine and be able to test it at the same time. Maybe through a web browser or something. About the windows thing, I'd like to be able to actually install a emulated distro in Windows and "trick" it into thinking that it, itself is not running on top of another o/s.

Thanks!

craigevil · 02-16-2006, 06:30 PM

VMware Player - Run any virtual machine

VMware Player lets you evaluate new or pre-release software contained in virtual machines, without any installation or configuration hassles. You can also share existing virtual machines with colleagues or friends—just use VMware Player to run any virtual machine.
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

I've been playing with this on my Xp machine. Pretty cool. So far I have been able to run Fedora Core 5 Test, SUSE 10.0, OPenBSD, Ubuntu, plus a number of LiveCDs.

XavierP · 02-16-2006, 08:31 PM

http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/help...rsync_pc1.html - installing rsync on a Windows system
http://www.gaztronics.net/rsync.php
http://www.itefix.no/phpws/index.php...position=23:23
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
All links are for installing rsync on Windows

hunterhunter · 02-17-2006, 07:57 AM

Thanks guys.

It's not that I want to install rsync on windows. I was just wondering if there was a way to install it and test it from the same box, but through emulation so the main o/s isn't aware that the other exists.

THanks for the help!