From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 27 06:48:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C34A16A4CE for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 06:48:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71EA43D53 for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 06:48:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7232E69A7E; Thu, 27 May 2004 09:47:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <40B5F177.7080906@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 09:47:35 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040506 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Mather References: <20040527133433.GB2561@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040527133433.GB2561@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD to Windows No Reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 13:48:03 -0000 Paul Mather wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2004 00:26:25 +0200 Toni Schmidbauer 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