How to emulate Windows on Linux?

[TheKingOfHearts]

i saw a guy do that on YouTube

he had like a separate window with windows booting in it
and he was working on linux at the same time

i was wondering how to do that
i googled a lot and coudnt find much on that

does anyone know what im mean

no its not something like Wine..wine dosent emulate windows
it just runs windows apps

i hope you get the idea

[p99]

Shoot lemme think of the name. Something player. Err...

Vmware player

Multi-platform and pwns. Uses a lot of memory though.

[TheKingOfHearts]

sweet ill give it a shot

is it hard to use? any tips and such

um...how do you install it....

[p99]

As far as installing it... Google around for tutorials for Linux.

It's a bitch to install but once you get it installed and registered (free version) it's pretty easy to use.

[bad_brain]

Bochs is also a good one, you can not only run a virtual computer with it, you can even simulate hardware (like the CPU):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bochs
it's also not REALLY easy to install, but it is well documented...

[TheKingOfHearts]

well i installed bochs it from synaptic packet manager

but now i dont understand whats wrong

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========================================================================
Event type: PANIC
Device: [     ]
Message: dlopen failed for module 'x': file not found

A PANIC has occurred.  Do you want to:
  cont       - continue execution
  alwayscont - continue execution, and don't ask again.
               This affects only PANIC events from device [     ]
  die        - stop execution now
  abort      - dump core 
  debug      - hand control to gdb
Choose one of the actions above: [die] 

[bad_brain]

look for a package named bochs-x and install it...it contains the plugins for the x-server...

[Lyecdevf]

Just google for "virtualization." There are many tools and pick on the is best suite for you.