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"Windows programs for Linux"? Whoops, typo. Windows programs from Linux, I'll fix that. You can mount other host filesystems from inside the VM in any hypervi
by danieldk 6y ago
"Windows programs for Linux"?
Whoops, typo. Windows programs from Linux, I'll fix that.
You can mount other host filesystems from inside the VM in any hypervisor I know of.
In most hypervisors you can't do a
notepad.exe foo.txt
or
TextEdit.app foo.txt
for that matter in a Linux VM,
- microcolonel 6y agoWith virtio-fs I think this is becoming more doable. Of course, it's not quite as fast as running a guest filesystem on virtio-blk yet, but maybe it'll get there.
- fomine3 6y agoWSL can run `notepad.exe foo` from bash. Not only fs integration.
- microcolonel 6y ago> WSL can run `notepad.exe foo` from bash. Isn't that just a binary loader, like you can do with wine/qemu on any Linux? Surely it's mostly just proxying the pipes, replicating the working directory, and maybe keeping some of the environment variables. The filesystem integration seems like the trickiest part of that altogether.