running windows in linux

[manu.]

hai everybody....
now i want to run widows or its applications in my fedora14. i heard about vmwere&wine,
but dont know which one would be better choice. or is there any other applications that is better than these...? any body please..........

[oz]

dont know which one would be better choice

Neither option is necessarily the best choice for everyone, so it's hard to say which is best for you. I'd recommend trying them both then making up your own mind which works best for you and your own needs. I'm not aware of any apps that work better than those.

[Blackzer]

wine is a windows binary emulator so that's mean you run windows application under linux (some windows application don't run in wine) and vmware is a software virtualization (is like a virtual computer on your linux box) you will install windows on it. Now the question is what you want to do?

[nujinini]

I personally have good experience with VirtualBox. You might want to check it out also

[kalyankumarp]

Hi manu,

If you want to install windows applications you can do it using 'wine' and for windows you can use virtual boxes.

Thanks & Regards
Kalyan Kumar Pasupuleti
RHCE,LDAP,SELinux Certified

[byoungtgs]

Some applications work well with WINE, other's don't at all.

You can also use QEMU & KVM (Kernel based Virtual Machine). This is what I personally use and it's free (unlike VMWare Workstation or Server). I've never had experience with VirtualBox.

The downfalls of VMWare, QEMU/KVM, and VirtualBox is that you have to have a Windows License, and there is extra overhead there to run the entire Operating System, when you might just want one application. Also, it's less seamless due to the entire operating system. However, it might be the only way to get some finicky applications to work easily.