Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:47:17 11/08/03
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On November 08, 2003 at 14:25:21, George Sobala wrote:
>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!).
That's right.
Win4lin must install a few hooks in the kernel, so it is Linux specific.
For the major distros it is just a matter of downloading the right RPM from
NeTraverse's website and to install it. It replaces your standard kernel by
exactly the same version with the Win4lin hooks.
For the other distros you have to apply a patch and then recompile the kernel.
FreeBSD is not supported as far as I know. But you should check on their website
first (https://www.netraverse.com/).
>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!
I tried it under Red Hat Linux 8 and 9, and it is both hard to install and
configure and fails to run most Windows applications. The ones it manages to run
do not work properly or have strange display bugs.
I think Wine is a very important project for the future of Linux and FreeBSD,
but I would not recommend it at this time. These guys have an enormous amount of
work ahead. That's a very courageous project, and I hope they will succeed.
>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.
Win4Lin under RH9 slows Chess Tiger (the standard Windows version) by 6 to 7%.
So in normal use you do not even notice that you are running it in a virtual
machine.
Christophe
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