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A similar alternative to running Windows applications inside Linux is to use the proprietary Win4Lin software, which converts Microsoft's version of the Windows API to run inside Linux rather than reimplementing it from scratch. Since a legal copy of the Microsoft implementation of the Windows API is needed, use of Win4Lin requires a copy of Windows. A third alternative for running Windows applications within Linux is to use a Virtual Machine program and run the desired application along with the entire virtual Windows operating system. VMware is a proprietary hardware virtualisation program that can run Windows in this way with near-perfect functionality, however this approach can carry a considerable speed and performance penalty. Full CPU Emulator s (such as QEMU or the slower counterpart Bochs ) can be used, though to run a Windows program these emulators will also require a copy of Windows. Aside from the performance difficulties, virtual machine approaches to running Windows applications cannot integrate Windows programs into the Linux desktop, as they must instead run inside the virtual Windows desktop. A fourth alternative is to run the applications on a Windows machine but use remote access software such as Virtual Network Computing (VNC) to view it on the Linux desktop. This is a good solution where applications are unable to be migrated, or an item of hardware such as a Dongle , custom decoder card, or some USB devices will only run under Windows. At its simplest one or more people needing occasional access to Windows applications can share remote access to a single Windows PC for that purpose using VNC. In a corporate setting essentially the same can be done using a Citrix server, Rdesktop to access a Microsoft Terminal Services server, or with NX Technology . |
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