X11 .exe

[trainguy77]

Is there a way to run windows .exe files from KDE within X11? Is there anyting open source. I know there is no way to do it in OS X with out virtual PC. Thanks for any help.

[MisterMe]

Is there a way to run windows .exe files from KDE within X11? Is there anyting open source. I know there is no way to do it in OS X with out virtual PC. Thanks for any help.Why don't you look for MacOS X solutions? Far and away, your best solution is Virtual PC. You may also try Bochs (http://bochs.sourceforge.net/), which may or may not work with the G5. On general principle, I do not recommend OpenOSX™ Wintel (http://www.openosx.com/wintel/index.html). It is an implementation of opensource Bochs with G4/G5 acceleration and a price tag.

[FredAkbar]

Go with QemuX: http://cordney.com/QemuX

It's a lot faster than bochs, and still free. I'm not sure how Qemu compared to VPC, but I don't think there's too much difference. Inside of Qemu, you can either get a version of Windows and run that, or else run Wine (www.winehq.org) inside of Linux, if you don't want to purchase anything.

[Jalexster]

Wine won't run on PPC, only x86. You could try Darwine though, a PPC port of Wine, that is designed for OS X.

[MisterMe]

Wine won't run on PPC, only x86. You could try Darwine though, a PPC port of Wine, that is designed for OS X.Darwine is still very much in the developmental stages. It uses QEMU as the x86 emulator engine.