[ale] A free alternative to VMWare and Win4Lin

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Sun Feb 20 09:05:03 EST 2005


Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Thank you for the clarification.
> 
> I fail to recognize the merit of this idea of increasing complexity. 
> Isn't Winders unstable enough without bringing down both ?
> 
> Why not use a KVM switch and put both, but separate, on a local LAN ?

I don't know how win4lin does it, but if it's like vmware, it creates 
one huge file that contains the whole install.  You can back that file 
up and when the windows destroys itself, which they eventually do, you 
just replace the file with the backup and restart.

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Until later, Geoffrey



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