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The Windows partition must first be mounted (for instance under /windows/), and the wine
user must have read and write access. The following fstab entry grants this access to all users:
/dev/hda1 /windows fat defaults,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0
Now let's install the required packages:
# apt-get install wine ttf-mscorefonts-installer wine-doc
The user then needs to run winecfg and configure /windows/ to be used as the C: drive. Other
settings can be kept to their default values. Running Windows programs then becomes a simple
matter of running wine /windows/.../program.exe.
Note that you should not rely on Wine (or similar solutions) without actually testing the particular
software: only a real-use test will determine conclusively whether emulation is fully
functional.
ALTERNATIVE
Virtual machines
An alternative to emulating Microso's operating system is to actually run
it in a virtual machine that emulates a full hardware machine. This allows
running any operating system. Chapter 12, Advanced Administration (page
298) describes several virtualization systems, most notably Xen and KVM (but
also QEMU, VMWare and Bochs).
ALTERNATIVE
Windows Terminal Server or
VNC
Yet another possibility is to remotely run the legacy Windows applications
on a central server with Windows Terminal Server and access the application
from Linux machines using rdesktop. This is a Linux client for the RDP protocol
(Remote Desktop Protocol) that Windows NT/2000 Terminal Server uses
to display desktops on remote machines.
The VNC soware provides similar features, with the added benefit of also
working with many operating systems. Linux VNC clients and servers are
described in Section 9.2, “Remote Login” (page 188).
370 The Debian Administrator's Handbook