"The problem is, for me, and many other developers, administrators or just normal users, that if you want to use applications from a different OS, you have to reboot and boot into the other OS. Sometimes, when you, for example, just want to do a quick test of a newly compiled application, and go back to work, it is very inconvenient and time consuming. Standard ways of dealing with these problems is either creating virtual machine for Linux, setting up two PCs (one with Windows, second with Linux) or using Cygwin/SFU (Services for Unix). But there is also another way, which allows you to run Linux on Windows natively - coLinux."
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Member since:2006-07-26
I love this kind of stuff.
At work I have been using cygwin for a while on windows. I even have the same home directory that I do in Linux under Cygwin because I mounted a Samba share of my Linux home directory on Windows and set that share as the home dir in Cygwin's /etc/passwd.
I use Xming as my X server on Windows.
I also make use of VNC.
At home, I go the other way around (because I wanted beryl) and run Linux. I use Wine for most things and VirtualBox if I can't get something working in Wine.
It looks like OSX will soon have a very nice solution superior to anything I have seen for other platforms. Watch this video...
I can't verify that this link is what I really wanted because youtube is blocked where I'm at now but I think this is it....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIApJMzGzDQ
Member since:2006-11-02
I know there's a similar (but not Apple-level slick yet) solution in Ubuntu.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SeamlessVirtualization
Member since:2006-08-18
Member since:
2006-08-18
1) Wine or Crossover
2) Remote Desktop via VNC or Seamless RDP over
headless VM
3) Multi-boot system
4) Port the software