Is Windows emulation possible on amd64?

fonz · Jul 10, 2011

Hi all,

Occasionally I need to run some Windows apps. Is it at all possible to run these on a FreeBSD/amd64 8.2-RELEASE system? I've tried emulators/wine, emulators/vmware3 and emulators/virtualbox-ose but the first two are only available for i386 and the latter doesn't compile either (plus I've been told it has no USB support).

Any suggestions?

Fonz

caesius · Jul 10, 2011

I'm using one of the packages from the link below on an AMD64 system and I've had no issues this far.

Wine packages for amd64

graudeejs · Jul 10, 2011

You can install wine on amd64 with

Read this:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine

VirtualBox works very good. Haven't tested USB
http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox

adamk · Jul 10, 2011

USB works fine with VirtualBox 4.* on FreeBSD.

Is Windows emulation possible on amd64?

fonz

caesius

graudeejs

adamk