[Opensource] Running windows applications seamlessly inside Linux

[Anton Yoxon]

Double height the windows bar and see if that works

victor rajewski wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Anton Yoxon
> <anton.yoxon at hillcrest.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>   
>>  Not yet but I will be this morning.  I am running Hardy Heron and love it.
>> i am getting my techos to install it on our machines alongside windows.
>> hardy Heron allows an install within windows.
>>  cheers
>>  anton
>>     
>
> Yes, that is quite sweet. After spending some time enabling dual-boot
> on our machines in a way that ghost can handle it, I installed a beta
> of hardy and this solved (almost) all my problems in one fell swoop.
> It even uses the windows bootloader so it doesn't touch the MBR.
>
> The only remaining problem is that after ghosting, all the linux boxes
> have exactly the same configuration - or more importantly the same
> hostname. I couldn't find a 'nice' way to solve this, so I wrote a
> script that essentially has a lookup table to check what the MAC
> address of the machine it's running on is, and match that to a
> hostname and set it. If anyone has any other solutions, I'd be
> interested to hear them...
>
> I've just tried virtualbox in seamless mode, and it's quite nice;
> though the windows taskbar gets lumped over the top of the gnome panel
> on the bottom... Think I might stick with keeping a virtual desktop
> for virtual windows. Also, it's nice that cut-and-paste works across
> virtual boundaries
>
> vik
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