Posted by Eian Counts on 2000-08-29
VMWare does indeed do what you described, but there are a few draw backs related to it. First, it isn't freeware, and comes with a hefty price. Second, it is slow. The cygwin project is still underway, but I don't think that I is associate with Cygnus (the company that started it) anymore. A more detailed description of the cygwin project can be found at: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/usenix-98/cygwin.html Also, a webpage reporting the current going ons of the cygwin project can be found at: http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/ Hope this helps, Eian > >Sounds like what you want is VMWare. Go download a >demo copy and give it a >shot. It allows you to actually physically boot >another OS while in Windows >or Linux. Then you could run Linux AND BeOS from >within your Windows >environment, with nearly complete nativness. Be >forwarned in advance >however that you ARE indeed running *2* operating >systems at once, and that >is quite a tax on the system, so don't try it if you >don't have lots of ram >(128 would be considered a fair BARE minimum, leaving >a scant 64 for each >OS, IMHO you should have at least 256 to do this). >Give it a try, I think >it's exactly what you need. > >PS. It *DOES* indeed to networking, according to the >network, there will be >two physical machines there, each OS running is a >complete version of that >OS. Have fun! > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! >http://mail.yahoo.com/ >>
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