Running Linux applications naively on Windows?
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 at
07:24
I have virtual box with ubuntu 10.04 installed as a virtual machine . I recently heard about using xming to run the applications from it natively on windows with xming . Is this possible ? If it is how would I do it ?
Tagged with: virtual box • virtual machine • xming
Filed under: Linux Applications
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Try WUBI. It puts Ubuntu inside Windows as an image file, kind of like running a video game from an image on your hd instead of a cd. It’s not a VM that way, it runs as a program under Windows.
It doesn’t alter your Windows install and can be easily removed.
http://wubi-installer.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_%28Ubuntu_installer%29
xming is an X server, not a Linux emulator. Linux programs won’t run natively in Windows. (xming runs natively in Windows, but it’s not a Linux emulator.)