Ubuntu/windows

[SuperAntMD]

Im a complete noob at this so please bare with me. I found this link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SeamlessVirtualization which if im understanding properly is the equivalent of Parallels on Mac, but for linux.

What I want to know is this, does Windows have to be intalled in some form of virtualisation of can I do the same sort of thing with my already installed windows partition?

Sorry if this is glaringly obvious to everyone but me

 

[Random717]

it looks like it can be done using a current xp installation

 

[Nod]

It seems, according to the link above, that they are running VMWare, which is a virtual machine, or Qemu, which seems to run windows from an image (disk image?).

rdesktop is a terminal services client for Linux, much like "Remote Desktop" in windows, or a Citrix client. Using it, you can access the whole desktop, or just a single application on the serving OS.

You might want have a look at "wine" aswell, as you don't need a copy of windows to use it.

 

[Random717]

I don't get the point of the whole thing, because you need to first launch Windows in VMWare. Why then access it with rdesktop, when you can use what you wanted to use in VMWare anyway?

 

[Nod]

I don't get the point of the whole thing, because you need to first launch Windows in VMWare. Why then access it with rdesktop, when you can use what you wanted to use in VMWare anyway?

VMware will just be a big overhead, it might be better to go for Wine in this case.

 

[SuperAntMD]

My understanding of it was you could run windows in VMWare once, set it up appropriately and then use your windows applications at will, but on linux.

Is this correct?

Assuming so, what i want to know is can i use my existing windows partition instead of the whole vm route which would be annoying?