[ale] Making Windows stable via Linux

[CharlesM at Media-Brokers.com (Charles Marcus)]

> From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 4:10 PM
> 
> I don't know about win4lin, but windows booting in
> vmware is not any faster then booting off the box.
> In reality, it's probably slower.

Trust me - on Win4Lin, it screams (relatively speaking).

> Also, win98 under vmware is degraded verses win98
> running on that same box resident.
> 
> The only gain in reliability would be that you
> could back up your whole vmware win98 install,
> then when it craps out on you, you just replace 
> the whole bloody file.  Remember to retain decent
> back ups though.

You can do the same thing using tar on the Win4Lin directory.

Charles

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