You should go to http://www.win4lin.com/. They have software to let Windows 95/98/ME run within Linux. Instead of emulating a complete pc, they use special device drivers. Currently I don't know of any way to run Windows XP in such a way. Garrett Serack wrote: > > I'm curious about the feasability and possibility of using Wine as a > basis for running as much MS code under Linux as possible. > > Let me explain: > > Windows XP (and most of it's ilk before it) don't support remote > booting, that is using a diskless workstation and booting the OS from > the network. Linux, of course readily provides that functionality. > > However, switching to linux is not really an option for the majority > of our work.. We've already got the Windows licenses anyway. > > The question is, if I used as much stuff from Windows XP as possible, > how complete of OS could be built? > > I was thinking about Usermode linux the other day, how it's like > having an OS inside of and OS, and there was also the beginnings of a > Line project( kinda the opposite of Wine, running Linux binaries under > Windows type of thing...[http://line.sourceforge.net]), and I was > thinking about if it would be possible to backend Windows itself to > run under Linux, without requiring stuff like VMware and its kin, > which are not optimal uses of the native OS, IMHO. > > I'd like to get a Linux/Wine/Windows system running like this. Has > anyone done that? What are the big limitations? Can it be done > effectively? > > Anyone? > > Gar > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users