The virtual
machine then hosts a file system and operating system just as any physical computer does.
In this section, you will learn about three emulators (Wine, DOSBox, and Basilisk II) and
two virtual machines (VMware and Win4Lin).
A Few Misconceptions About Cross-Platform Tools
Nothing??™s perfect, and it??™s very hard to reach seamless cross-platform computing nirvana.
Before looking closely at each of these tools, you should know a few things that may
diminish your excitement at this newfound capability:
. Whatever tool you run from Linux, you won??™t run your existing Windows applications
from the Windows side of your computer. You will install a new instance of
the application and will probably have to re-create your settings from scratch.
. You cannot automatically use the same data (such as your Eudora mail queue) for
both the Windows side and the Linux side. In many applications, you can import
data from one side to the other, but changes made in one copy will not be reflected
in the other copy.
. Don??™t install an emulator or virtual machine to run an application you don??™t have.
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