How Do You Play Windows Games In Linux?
• Try Win4Lin. Win4Lin is purchased software that allows you to install Windows 2000 or XP inside a Linux system. Essentially, it lets you run a virtual Windows machine inside a Linux machine. Although this product is meant primarily as a business tool, if you already have it, then you should try using it to run games. Because this is a commercial tool with plenty of documentation, we can leave the details of installation instructions and starting Win4Lin to the manuals. On older machines under 1.5 GHz and less than a 1G RAM, don’t even bother. The virtual Windows runs at a snail’s pace. Playing anything except untimed games is basically impossible due to performance lag, but you only get this slowdown inside the Win4Lin session. You will likely need to copy files from the CD-ROM to the hard drive for games. • VMware is a pricey $200+ windows emulator for business, and is the only one that boots both SIMS and WoW in one session. It runs very similarly but way better than W4L, but the c
