Hello everyone of Wine. I have been an Ubuntu user for the past month or so now and I have very little experience with Wine. I originally started using the OS/app loader on a Sony Vaio NR110 laptop, but now I am the owner of an MSI Wind. I have my Wind dual booted (XP, Ubuntu) with the larger partition to ext3 for ubuntu's boot. Usuing about 1.3gb for swap too. I would like to start using Wine to keep my Windows apps (why else...) but I was wondering: -Can Windows XP, with the use of fsdriver to read ext3 filing, run a Windows app installed on ubuntu? I know that Wine from Ubuntu can't run apps from the Windows boot partition, but can Windows run apps from ubuntu's boot partition? I would just like to consider which partition to have most of my programs like Office. Thanks in advance everyone.
SlyCat wrote:> -Can Windows XP, with the use of fsdriver to read ext3 filing, run a Windows app installed on ubuntu?No for the same exact reasons you can't run apps off of windows partition in Wine.
Exactly. I use Ext2IFS to see Ubuntu partition from Windows XP and when I try to execute any file from linux, I immediately get blue screen of death. Copying, pasting and cutting files works, though.
SlyCat wrote:> Hello everyone of Wine. I have been an Ubuntu user for the past month or so now and I have very little experience with Wine. I originally started using the OS/app loader on a Sony Vaio NR110 laptop, but now I am the owner of an MSI Wind. > > I have my Wind dual booted (XP, Ubuntu) with the larger partition to ext3 for ubuntu's boot. Usuing about 1.3gb for swap too. I would like to start using Wine to keep my Windows apps (why else...) but I was wondering: > > -Can Windows XP, with the use of fsdriver to read ext3 filing, run a Windows app installed on ubuntu? > > I know that Wine from Ubuntu can't run apps from the Windows boot partition, but can Windows run apps from ubuntu's boot partition? I would just like to consider which partition to have most of my programs like Office. >It is not possible to do what you want. Windows will not execute a program located on a Linux partition, and it is not advised to run a program from Wine on Linux from a NTFS partition, mainly the Windows boot partition. To do what you request, you must install your program both under Windows in the NTFS/FAT partition and under Wine in a Linux partition. However, it may be possible, with the proper drivers and a really good backup of your data, to work with the same documents and data with both operating systems. James McKenzie
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:40:06 -0600 "SlyCat" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I know that Wine from Ubuntu can't run apps from the Windows boot partition, but can Windows run apps from ubuntu's boot partition? I would just like to consider which partition to have most of my programs like Office.Perhaps you can install your apps as portable apps (http://portableapps.com/) in a 3rd partition. I don't know if and how well this is supportet by wine, i never done this, it's just an idea. -- rm -rf # remote mail, real fast
woo, thanks for all the help/replies. I figured as much. Im wouldn't mind trying the portable apps partitioning, but idk how many partitions my little 120gb can take, heh. Though I don't think it will work since both Windows and Linux boot need their own filing systems to boot the apps. Ill give it a shot when I get out of classes.