Windows XP to run from Linux boot

SlyCat · Post by **SlyCat** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:40 am

Hello everyone of Wine. I have been an Ubuntu user for the past month or so now and I have very little experience with Wine. I originally started using the OS/app loader on a Sony Vaio NR110 laptop, but now I am the owner of an MSI Wind.

I have my Wind dual booted (XP, Ubuntu) with the larger partition to ext3 for ubuntu's boot. Usuing about 1.3gb for swap too. I would like to start using Wine to keep my Windows apps (why else...) but I was wondering:

-Can Windows XP, with the use of fsdriver to read ext3 filing, run a Windows app installed on ubuntu?

I know that Wine from Ubuntu can't run apps from the Windows boot partition, but can Windows run apps from ubuntu's boot partition? I would just like to consider which partition to have most of my programs like Office.

Thanks in advance everyone.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:05 am

SlyCat wrote:-Can Windows XP, with the use of fsdriver to read ext3 filing, run a Windows app installed on ubuntu?

No for the same exact reasons you can't run apps off of windows partition in Wine.

Fazer · Post by **Fazer** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 2:10 pm

Exactly. I use Ext2IFS to see Ubuntu partition from Windows XP and when I try to execute any file from linux, I immediately get blue screen of death. Copying, pasting and cutting files works, though.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:07 pm

SlyCat wrote:

Hello everyone of Wine. I have been an Ubuntu user for the past month or so now and I have very little experience with Wine. I originally started using the OS/app loader on a Sony Vaio NR110 laptop, but now I am the owner of an MSI Wind.

I have my Wind dual booted (XP, Ubuntu) with the larger partition to ext3 for ubuntu's boot. Usuing about 1.3gb for swap too. I would like to start using Wine to keep my Windows apps (why else...) but I was wondering:

-Can Windows XP, with the use of fsdriver to read ext3 filing, run a Windows app installed on ubuntu?

I know that Wine from Ubuntu can't run apps from the Windows boot partition, but can Windows run apps from ubuntu's boot partition? I would just like to consider which partition to have most of my programs like Office.

It is not possible to do what you want. Windows will not execute a
program located on a Linux partition, and it is not advised to run a
program from Wine on Linux from a NTFS partition, mainly the Windows
boot partition.

To do what you request, you must install your program both under Windows
in the NTFS/FAT partition and under Wine in a Linux partition.

However, it may be possible, with the proper drivers and a really good
backup of your data, to work with the same documents and data with both
operating systems.

James McKenzie

Stefan Klein · Post by **Stefan Klein** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:47 pm

On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:40:06 -0600
"SlyCat" <[email protected]> wrote:

I know that Wine from Ubuntu can't run apps from the Windows boot partition, but can Windows run apps from ubuntu's boot partition? I would just like to consider which partition to have most of my programs like Office.

Perhaps you can install your apps as portable apps (http://portableapps.com/) in a 3rd partition.

I don't know if and how well this is supportet by wine, i never done this, it's just an idea.

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SlyCat · Post by **SlyCat** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:07 pm

woo, thanks for all the help/replies.

I figured as much. Im wouldn't mind trying the portable apps partitioning, but idk how many partitions my little 120gb can take, heh. Though I don't think it will work since both Windows and Linux boot need their own filing systems to boot the apps.

Ill give it a shot when I get out of classes.