1. Linux Emulator

Portable VirtualBox was an unofficial Portable Wrapper for VirtualBox, created by Micha. An improved version is currently being offered by Tibo, the author of the LiLi USB Creator. VirtualBox is officially a product of Oracle. It is an emulator or virtual machine that can be used to run various Operating Systems via Disk Images, ISO's and CD/DVD's as a guest OS from within another Host Operating Environment. By using Micha/Tibo's portable wrapper, VirtualBox can be stored and run entirely from a USB device. Listed under. Portable Ubuntu Remix for Windows ( Pubuntu) is a project headed by that uses CoLinux (Cooperative Linux) to enable a user to run Ubuntu on top of Windows.

CoLinux, a port of the Linux Kernel, is an open source virtual machine that works much like Qemu (some claim it is faster). Ubuntu is a fork of Debian, and a product of Canonical Ltd.

In the following tutorial, we will show you how to install and run CoLinux Portable Ubuntu from a USB flash drive or other portable device, all while you're still up and running in Windows. Listed under. Normally, the tutorials featured here pertain to running Linux from a USB flash pen drive or other portable USB device. However, this tutorial explains how to run that Live Linux CD/DVD you might have sitting around from within Windows using Qemu Emulation. That's right, you can run a Live Linux CD using your CD/DVD drive from your windows desktop without rebooting.

Linux Emulator

Linux has come a long way, but you may still need to run Windows applications occasionally – especially Windows-only PC games. Luckily, there are quite a few ways. If you want to play Windows games on your Linux machine, you'll either need to figure it out with Wine, which may work in some cases, or you'll have to dual-boot your machine. That leads to the key difference between Win4Lin and VMware: the level of emulation.

Hey guys, I've tried running Windows XP in linux on Qemu, it installed perfectly, but when I try to run certain programs they crash and when i try to.

The advantages are two fold. You can run Linux on top of Windows from a CD or DVD without any installation to another storage media. In addition, this process eliminates the need to restart your PC and set your BIOS options to boot Linux from CD or USB. Listed under.

Is a Windows console window enhancement. Console2 still uses the interface provided by Windows, but provides a wrapper around it with more features.

Cmd.exe is used as the default shell but it's configurable. Is a for and Cygwin derivatives such as. Using mintty is very much like using PuTTY to ssh into your own Cygwin installation, except without the ssh. It hooks into Cygwin's terminal emulation to provide a faithful UNIX terminal interface.

However, this makes it unusable for programs expecting a Win32 console. Sorry for the self-promotion, I'm the author of another Console Emulator, not mentioned here. Is opensource console emulator with tabs, which represents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window.

Initially, the program was designed to work with (my favorite shell replacement - file and archive management, command history and completion, powerful editor). But ConEmu can be used with any other console application or simple GUI tools (like PuTTY for example).

ConEmu is a live project, open to suggestions.