What about Win4Lin Pro and Gentoo?

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steelrose · Post by **steelrose** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:58 pm

Hi i plan to buy the above mentioned software and i want your opinion about it.Does it work well with Gentoo?Any known problems?I currently have a dualboot installation Gentoo and winxp
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davidgurvich · Post by **davidgurvich** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 4:29 am

I have tried Win4LinPro and found it was unusable on my system. However, Win4Lin is quite good, once installed. The installation is the trick.

steelrose · Post by **steelrose** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:13 pm

Hi there.
I bought Win4Lin but unfortunely dont works on gentoo:twisted:
Now i am waiting to take my money back

psycho_seba · Post by **psycho_seba** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:34 pm

Win4Lin does work on gentoo. Are you using a win4lin-enabled kernel?

steelrose · Post by **steelrose** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:07 am

No i didnt use win4lin enabled kernel.It supposed not to need such one. will try the trial version and tell you about the results

St. Joe · Post by **St. Joe** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:29 pm

People are getting it to work from what I've seen.
You may want to read into this THREAD.

davidgurvich · Post by **davidgurvich** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:08 pm

The only problem I had was with loading the 2 modules. The kernel module mki-adapter and Win4Lin.ko located in /var/win4lin/drivers. The script would not load them properly until started during boot.

I used the vanilla kernel version 2.6.11 and applied the patches from the Win4Lin site. I haven't tried the onion-sources yet. It works for most things that don't require direct access to the hardware.

ChojinDSL · Post by **ChojinDSL** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 12:25 am

Whats performance like with win4lin? Is it faster or slower than VMware, or the same?

Can Win4lin do anything that VMware cant? What about games and directx or direct3d?

davidgurvich · Post by **davidgurvich** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:38 pm

win4lin is good enough for programs that don't require direct access to the hardware. I suggest you try the demo versions of both. To get a demo license for win4lin you need to email support and request one. For win4linpro, there is a demo version, but I don't recommend that from my experience. VMWare has a demo version as well.

If you need to see how they work with a particular program, I suggest you download the demo and try it out. All of them require an OS cd or iso to install the VM. If you install windows you will need a license. Win4Lin is the trickiest installation.

In terms of cost, Win4Lin is cheapest, then Win4LinPro, and then VMWare.