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Run Windows Apps Seamlessly In Linux

While I haven’t had a chance to run through this tutorial myself, it really seems like an awesome way to have a completely integrated desktop environment if you find yourself having to use windows apps a lot. Basically, you end up running an app called SeamlessRDP as well as a copy of Windows XP in a virtual machine in the background, allowing you to use your window manager and an XP taskbar to manage your windows apps.

It will probably take a fairly beefy machine to run this all time (if you need that), but it seems like a slick alternative to WINE and much more integrated than running the virtual machine in a separate window.

I can’t wait to give this a try, though I’d like to see if I could get rid of the Windows XP taskbar.

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This entry was posted on Friday, March 14th, 2008 at 2:40 am and is filed under Crossplatform Computing, Tutorials. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Run Windows Apps Seamlessly In Linux”

  1. Hi Nathan,

    Great podcast and great post!

    I’ve messed around a lot with VMWare Server and had pretty good success.

    A friend recently turned me on to VirtualBox and it seems much more tuned for desktop performance. I’m using it on two Ubuntu Gutsy machines (each with 2GB memory) to run apps like Dreamweaver and Fireworks & IE and have found:

    1. It’s faster than VMWare Server - I think because it’s lighter and not intended for the server. Especially graphic performance is better.

    2. The seamless mode within VirtualBox also allows you to run Windows ’seamlessly’ within Linux. I’ve used this and it works okay, although I prefer to segregate Windows a bit more by keeping it on one of my virtual desktops.

    3. VirtualBox has an Open Source version.

    I still love VMWare Server for server applications, but on the desktop for real production use, it just doesn’t seem as responsive.

  2. I’ve not tried VirtualBox, but the seamless mode sounds super cool. Thanks for the tip!

    I did hear that VirtualBox is difficult to install if you’ve already installed VMware. Any tips?