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Subject: The need for cygwin
From: Karthik Balaguru <karthikbalaguru79 AT gmail DOT com>
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Hi,
I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like =A0VirtualBox,
Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to
provide the linux in windows ?
How is cygwin different from those and what are the advantages
provided by cygwin ?
What are the advantages provided by cygwin ?

VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has
a large list of supported guest operating systems and platforms it
runs on.
Bochs IA-32 Emulator is a open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written
in C++, that runs on most popular platforms and is capable of running
most Operating Systems inside the emulation including Linux, DOS,
Windows 95/98 and Windows NT/2000/XP or Windows Vista. QEMU is a
generic and open source machine emulator and virtualize.  VMware
Player and VMware Server are free.  VMware Workstation is not free.
Further, Hyper-V also supports linux & windows .
In Xen also Modified versions of Linux, Several modified Unix-like
operating systems may function as guest operating systems ;  on
certain hardware, as of Xen version 3.0, unmodified versions of
Microsoft Windows and other proprietary operating systems can also run
as guests if the CPU supports x86 virtualization.

Infact there is a very big list mentioned in the link -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_platform_virtual_machines
and many are able to provide the emulation support .
How far is cygwin powerful than those ? Any ideas ?

Thx in advans,
Karthik Balaguru

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