I use both, not for the same purpose. Win4Lin is definitely more light weight than
VMware and
running applications like Visual Studio etc. is very efficient. However, as stated, it
does not
implement a complete OS. The main drawback I can see so far : it does not provide a
network
interface on its own but rather passes network request to Linux directly. This means
that all
network CLIENT programs work fine but no SERVER apps is supported and you cannot use
Netbios for
browsing around.
On the other hand, VMware has full network support but it is kind of heavy in term of
memory and
processing resources.
Philippe
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Frank Rocco wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm looking to purchase a product that will allow me to run some windows apps like
>quicken.
> > What is the difference between the two products?
> >
> > Does one work better than the other?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Frank
> >
> Well, I have not played with win4lin, but I use VMware. VMware
> completely seperates the running of windows from the rest of your Linux
> system. It runs the "guest operating system" in what they call a
> vertual machine. (It will run other operating systems besides Windows.)
> Depending on how you set up the disk accessing, it cal also set things
> up so that the changes you make when running windows are not written to
> disk. This can be handy when you what to check out the strange
> attachment you got with your e-mail. Also, if you use the default
> setup, where your Windows file system is actualy a file on the hard
> drive, you can do things like make a copy of this file, and restore it
> after you mess up your windows setup. The only problem with this is you
> are limmited to 2G disk size for now. You also loose some performance
> because of this.
>
> >From what I understand about win4lin, you don't get as much of a
> performance loss, but you do not get as conplete seperation. And os
> corse, you don't get the ability to run other OSs as a window on your
> Linux box.
>
> Mikkel
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