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VirtualBox may be installed on Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Solaris and OpenSolaris. There are also ports to FreeBSD [ 5 ] and Genode . [ 6 ] It supports the creation and management of guest virtual machines running Windows, Linux, BSD , OS/2 , Solaris, Haiku , and OSx86 , [ 7 ] as well as limited virtualization of macOS guests on Apple ...
Bob Amstadt, the initial project leader, and Eric Youngdale started the Wine project in 1993 as a way to run Windows applications on Linux.It was inspired by two Sun Microsystems products, Wabi for the Solaris operating system, and the Public Windows Interface, [11] which was an attempt to get the Windows API fully reimplemented in the public domain as an ISO standard but rejected due to ...
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a feature of Microsoft Windows that allows the use of a GNU/Linux environment from within Windows, foregoing the overhead of a virtual machine and being an alternative to dual booting.
Windows XP Mode is available free of charge to users of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate. [36] Users of other editions of Windows 7 are not eligible to download and use it. [40] [43] This restriction does not apply to Windows Virtual PC itself. Windows XP Mode can also be run with VMware Player and VMware Workstation. However ...
Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became generally available on October 22, 2009. [10] It is the successor to Windows Vista, released nearly three years earlier. Windows 7's server counterpart, Windows Server 2008 R2, was released at the ...
This is a list of software that provides an alternative graphical user interface for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The technical term for this interface is a shell. Windows' standard user interface is the Windows shell; Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1x have a different shell, called Program Manager. The programs in this list do not restyle ...
Win4Lin was initially based on Merge software originally developed at Locus Computing Corporation, and which changed hands several times until it ended in the assets of NeTraverse, which were purchased in 2005 by Win4Lin, Inc. [8] [9] Later that year, they introduced Win4Lin Pro, which was based on a “tuned” version of QEMU and KQEMU, and it hosted Windows NT-versions of Windows.
Added support for installation of SVGA driver in a Windows Me guest machines; 2.0.4 [19] 21 May 2001 Added support of Red Hat Linux 7.1 and SUSE Linux 7.1; Increased default memory size of a Linux virtual machine to 64 MB; Added support of Pentium 4 processors; Added support for Windows 2000 hosts with CD-ROM drives configured for digital audio ...