Author: George Sobala
Date: 11:25:21 11/08/03
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On November 08, 2003 at 13:50:48, ERIQ wrote: >Just wondering is it possible to run winlin under freebsd since there is linux >emulation. though I don't really need it I would like to play some windows games >as well as get rebel-12 but do not like dual booting. Also what could be the >slow down in having two emulators going not to mention the blooot of windows it >self. I doubt it. I think Win4Lin needs special kernel modules for linux and sometimes has to recompile the kernel as part of the installation (though I could well be wrong on this!). VMWare is said to sometimes run under FreeBSD but I have never managed to get v3.2 running stably on 5.1-RELEASE. There is always wine as a final option, but I have not managed to get that running well under FreeBSD either! If any of them DID work, they would not be too bad for chess - when I used to run Linux I ran ChessPartner and ChessTiger inside a Windows NT virtual machine under VMWare, with only about a 10% slowdown compared to native windows. Indeed Christophe now develops ChessTiger under Win4Lin / linux. Don't expect to run a graphically intensive game though.
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