We can run linux on windows without VMWare like a normal windows program using QEMU. You can take any small linux distro like DSL or Puppy linux ISO and then run it using QEMU, then that OS would be running under windows like a normal windows program. You can even transfer data between this OS and windows OS using WinImage and creating virtual disks.
Linux Distribution: You can you any linux distribution but take an bootable ISO image.
QEMU: QEMU it shelf has this page for windows version of QEMU. You can download QEMU's windows packages which itself contains a testing linux image in it. Go to the above page and download qemu-0.9.0-windows.zip (28MB only) binary package, this includes a small linux from QEMU linux-test package.
Next ex
tract it to a folder,
Next run the qemu-win.bat file and a window will open which shows linux booting.
To gain keyboard control to this window click in it anywhere, now you can use it like any other linux, running into your windows as a program.
To gain back control to window press Ctrl+Alt to exit the grab. Please leave your comments about how I can improve this article more. Thanks
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