How to install and run Microsoft Windows in Linux__linux

There are many circumstances where you wish to run Windows applications on Linux. Microsoft Windows has been a dominant operating system (OS) for more than a decade, and there are quite a lot of applicati ONS developed in the Windows ecosystem. It's not surprising that some Windows applications so you wish to run, but are the missing on Linux platforms.

There are several open-source or commercial software tools, such as Wine,playonlinux Orcrossover, which allow to run W indows applications on Linux platforms. However, these tools are not very reliable solutions as they are on "based" Windows APIs. Users can still encounter various application-specific compatibility issues with them.

A more reliable approach to running native Windows applications on Linux platform are to use a Windows virtual machine (VM) . One problem of this approach are that we need to purchase a Windows license to install Windows OS on a VM.

The good news is this Microsoft recently made a set of Windows VMs publicly available for free! Microsoft decided to an offer free Windows VMs to support development and testing for different versions of Internet Explorer .

In this tutorial, I'll describe how to install with Run Microsoft windows on Linux, by using the free Windows VMs.

The the ' the ' to install Oracle VirtualBox on your Linux system. If you are already installed VirtualBox, make sure to upgrade VirtualBox to the latest version (4.2.16 or higher).

Next, go to http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads to download a Windows VM. Choose "Linux" as testing OS, and "VirtualBox" as virtualization platform. Then, select one of the available Windows VMs to download. Currently Microsoft offers the following Windows VMs for downloads. Windows XP Professional SP3 + IE 6 or 8 windows Vista + IE 7 windows 7 + IE 8, 9, or all Windows 8 + IE-one Windows 8.1 P Review + IE 11

In this tutorial, I download a VM with "Windows XP + IE 8".

The downloaded Windows VM is packed inside a self-extracting RAR archive. To unpack a Windows VM from the archive, run this: $ chmod 755 IE8. WinXP.For.LinuxVirtualBox.sfx
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It would generate an OVA the file for Windows VM.

Now launch VirtualBox, and choose the "Import appliance" from its GUI menu. Go ahead and import the OVA file in VirtualBox.

By default, the imported Windows VM has it network adapter not attached to any network. So, open up network settings of the WinXP VM, and make the network adapter attached to bridged.

Finally, Power on the Windows VM. You'll be the familiar-looking Windows booting procedure.

The Windows VM has a set of basic Windows utilities installed, as as a VirtualBox Guest additions for Windows.

Here are several important pieces of information about free Windows VMs . As you can, the free Windows VMs are for evaluation purposes, and are not supposed to is used for any production syste The free Windows VM to testing purposes only, but is not for commercial purposes. You can use the free Windows VM in the It is installed. After this, the Windows VM would stop running, and you won't be able to access data used the VM. Windows 8.1 Preview version expires on 1/15/2014. Login information for Windows Vista, 7 and 8 Vms:ieuser, passw0rd!