Have a virtual machine running transparently on desktop?

**jimv** · July 3rd, 2008

I thought I saw a program that would run XP in a VM transparently...so if you click a Windows executable on your desktop, it gets opened by the VM. It was called g-something (like everything else in Gnome

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Anyone know what I'm talking about?

**willc0de4food** · July 3rd, 2008

are you sure its not VirtualBox that you're thinking of? check out this youtube video.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxk6oFqMJVY

my google search didn't come up with a g-anything for a virtual machine >.<

**jimv** · July 3rd, 2008

Originally Posted by willc0de4food

are you sure its not VirtualBox that you're thinking of? check out this youtube video.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxk6oFqMJVY

my google search didn't come up with a g-anything for a virtual machine >.<

That must have been what I was thinking of.

**willc0de4food** · July 3rd, 2008

yea..thanks for pointing it out tho ^_^ looks pretty sweet. i'm going to try it out

**KuroYoma** · July 4th, 2008

I am using Wine-doors it and i am able to run windows exe files without actually opening anything.

**willc0de4food** · July 4th, 2008

really? because usually you can't run something if you dont open it ;]

**KuroYoma** · July 4th, 2008

It runs in the background and when, lets use winrar as an example, i click on the winrar icon in the application menu wine-door opens it as if i were using windows without the need to activate it first.