Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 09:47:35 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD to Windows No Reboot Message-ID: <40B5F177.7080906@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040527133433.GB2561@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> References: <20040527133433.GB2561@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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Paul Mather wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2004 00:26:25 +0200 Toni Schmidbauer <toni@stderror.at> wrote: > > => On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:20:07AM -0700, Bryan Maxwell wrote: > => > Is there a way I can go from FreeBSD to windows without rebooting? > => > => no, that's not possible. > > That's not strictly accurate. You can go from FreeBSD to Microsoft > Windows (and back again) without rebooting. (I can verify this from > personal experience.) One way is to install VMWare via ports and then > install Windows as a guest OS. (You need at least VMWare 3 to have > Windows XP as a supported guest OS.) You can then run Windows inside > a window when running X under FreeBSD. You can use Samba to access > files on your FreeBSD FFS partitions from inside the Windows guest OS. > (Alternatively, you can use scp/ftp to transfer files between the > running VMWare and FreeBSD if you don't want to go to the trouble of > setting up Samba on your FreeBSD system.) > > VMWare offers trialware license keys, so if you want to use this > method of accessing Windows beyond the trial period you'll have to buy > a full license. > > I've also heard people have had success running some Microsoft Windows > applications under FreeBSD using WINE, but I've not tried that myself. To throw one more into the mix: Bochs is another virtual machine ... developed open source and thus requiring no $$. It's been a while since I've worked with it, but I just checked freshports and it's apparently still under active development (the port was updated with a new version just today ... what kind of crazy nut is updating ports at 5:30 in the morning?) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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