X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 22:01:11 +0530 Message-ID: <53b627ea1001070831t71b6fc8fy62383b79b3e8fd99@mail.gmail.com> Subject: The need for cygwin From: Karthik Balaguru To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple