Emulate Windows?

Is it possible to Emulate 'Windows' on linux/bsd ? (i'm sure it's possible /|\ is it available?)

I've seen it for MAC but not for others?

isnt wine an emulator for linux that imitates windows i think it imitates versions from 95 to XP i dont think it emulates
NT though or are you talking about a GUI ?

1.Not just the GUI- i'd like to emulate the Operating System on my LinuxMachine.
2.Was "WINE" the name of the Emulator?
3.Will emulated windows have a problem storing data files? (ext2 vs. NTFS?)

yes wine is the name but i have had some problems trying to run games i think apps and stuff should be fine to emulate to
the website is here

www.winehq.com/

Several options:

- Wine emulates the Windows API and hence allows you to run (some) Windows programs on Linux. The Windows programs don't know they're running on linux.

- VMWare, Plex86 and Bochs actually emulate x86 hardware, and hence you can run a "Real" copy of Windows on the emulated hardware. Much more accurate, but slower and requires a real windows licence.

Wine will not allow programs running on it to store their files on an NTFS partition (until there's a real writeable NTFS driver for Linux anyway) - however they *can* store their data on any other type of partition Linux supports (ext3, etc) without noticing the difference (actually they might "see" it as a FAT or FAT32 partition)

The hardware emulators will provide a "virtual disk" on which you can run whatever filesystem the version of Windows you use supports. To use native storage you may have to "Network" mount it via samba.

The best option in my book is Win4Lin, available from www.netraverse.com. You can install and run your copy of Windows 95 or 98 (*not* Me or 2000/XP) just like if it was running on DOS. Much more reliable than wine, and faster and cheaper than VMWare.

Only drawback is that it doesn't support DirectX applications and games.