X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=CP 2b5yQ6R6sFbKL7jegKj99H8U6Kv4/iEG0qtYJ8qVBEYTLxK8gItjVT28Qh6dB4vZ 27Nz5SaqqQULWGlYL2ut8HKKjO12LJLx39+Y2uM4i4/YVCIn+2GglyVRttxByYaG ZJOsyY5zhaIN2lxts1na5Useswlfr+bLXZC/qxOSo= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; s=default; bh=LIepR+B4 8Qrll272OEbxmOBUceA=; b=p+OhTfG3At43Nsf36V+LhRh5SjwF540gqvicnOKC uwo6fCpG4UYtPx8i3kq65yy6KlZxhO/dzDL3oGC/lD26zYa0Bq+VofDL6b6B4EEI 8U5sOT5m4eOBFjOO5RxaseOd1BYaUvMaJGgV3jgjBU3lguh2JTUiA03hgPezNGBB LHI= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-qa0-f49.google.com MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.38.68 with SMTP id a4mr6149981qae.10.1378331690185; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:54:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5227A572.5010301@etr-usa.com> References: <0C723FEB5B4E5642B25B451BA57E27303EE006FF AT S1P5DAG3C DOT EXCHPROD DOT USA DOT NET> <5227A572 DOT 5010301 AT etr-usa DOT com> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 17:54:50 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine From: Earnie Boyd To: Andrey Repin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On 9/4/2013 09:36, Jim Garrison wrote: >> >> Am I missing something, or is there a reason one would want to run a >> Linux emulator under a Windows emulator on Linux? > > > For myself, it is occasionally nice to have a Cygwin sandbox environment to > play with when I'm on one of my Macs, away from a Windows box. Wine is > cheaper than a VM in terms of hardware requirements and licensing. > You must have some very expensive hardware. I'm running VirtualBox VMs on my laptop; which has a Windows 7 OS and two of those VM are different versions of Windows. The problem I have with my VM on my laptop is that when I'm away from the external drives I have the virtual disks stored on they don't work; but that is a seldom occurrence. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- 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