Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition

Re:Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition by selectodude on Saturday November 20, 2021 @12:53PM (#29290240)

Wrong OS, but VMware Fusion could do that with a boot camp volume. Worked magnificently. One of the few things I'm disappointed about losing with the transition to arm64.

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Re:Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition by aasasd on Saturday November 20, 2021 @02:39PM (#29291178)

Rumor is, VMs work in Rosetta. Apparently people run Windows games that way—and are saying that performance is at least not worse than in plain Windows on x64.

(Though I'm not so sure now that I remember it right, since VMs tend to use low-level approaches like kernel extensions, and Rosetta is probably not friendly toward those.)

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Re:Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition by selectodude on Saturday November 20, 2021 @03:03PM (#29291395)

I know that WoA works in Parallels Desktop, though I haven't tried it. That would at least give you access to x86-64 emulation in Windows. I am curious about playing around with Crossover which apparently implements WINE using Rosetta.

Maybe I'll use my free time this weekend to try and compile that.

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Re:Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition by 58028641 on Sunday November 21, 2021 @03:05PM (#29299233)

VMs do not work in Rosetta. But you can run ARM64 Windows in a VM and use Windows' x64 emulation. Rosetta does work with Wine.

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