"Virtual Bridges, a provider of enterprise and SMB solutions using virtualization for business, announced today the release of Win4BSD Pro Desktop Win4BSD Pro Desktop runs as a FreeBSD/PC-BSD application and allows users to run Windows applications and desktops with seamless ease on the BSD platform. The company also announced that it will be releasing Win4BSD Virtual Desktop Server, a FreeBSD-based desktop consolidation server, during October."
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Member since:2006-05-19
Win4BSD works much faster than Qemu+KQemu. They optimized their code heavily and added features that is not found on original development. All changes in Windows base system made automagically so after Windows install in Win4BSD you got fully configured shared folders with your FreeBSD system and optimized registry for virtual machine. And it really works like native application in window- no need to press some strange keyboard combination for leaving Windows environment- just move mouse outside and you are in FreeBSD again. Speed is impressive and multilanguage keybord support is here. One feature that I especially like is "snapshot" mode, which prevents changes to the guest session's "C:" drive from being committed to the disk image file; this is useful to prevent unwanted changes to your Windows installation (i.e. viruses, "malware", "spyware", etc.) once you have configured your applications as desired- anything saved to the guest session's "C:" drive will be lost once you exit the session.
Edited 2006-10-01 08:19
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2005-11-03
Why not just try qemu (+kqemu accelerator for i386)? Since it's based there anyway. Just 2 lines for you... "qemu-img create c.img 5G", "qemu -hda c.img -cdrom <your win iso> -mem 512 -localtime -boot d". Viola! win installation in progress...
Edited 2006-10-01 04:37