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Ms.Juiicii305

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Windows On 360?
« on: September 13, 2008, 05:15:00 AM »
Is it possible to have windows xp on ur 360?? i read this that said u can put ubuntu(click here) but i dont know if it acually works? I dont know if this belongs here, and i would appreciate not getting sarcastic remarks. i tried using the search but it comes out with an error. So if anyone has it on there 360 and its been tested i would appreciate if u post it. thanks alot guys!
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jimbobjim

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« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2008, 06:55:00 AM »
It's not possible to run windows on it's own, you need to use an emulator like wine to get it working through a Linux based OS.
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Wilhelm_I

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« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2008, 08:43:00 AM »
QUOTE(jimbobjim @ Sep 13 2008, 03:31 PM) *

It's not possible to run windows on it's own, you need to use an emulator like wine to get it working through a Linux based OS.

Actually it works a bit different, wine is just an emulator that allows you to run certain windows application on linux.
To run windows on linux you will have to use an emulator for the PowerPC architecture which converts it to i386 and then you can run Windows in VMware.
Thats why Xbox 1 games(i386) for example are running in an emulator on the 360...

All in all it is pretty much not worth it though since the performance will suffer a lot from the emulations in the background and besides that to get linux to run on a 360 is already not easy, so get this out of your head mate...

This post has been edited by Wilhelm_I: Sep 13 2008, 03:46 PM
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scuba156

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« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2008, 02:55:00 AM »
Windows will never run natively (meaning without using some sort of emulation) on anything but an Intel based X86/X68 PC.

First of all, no version of Windows has ever had its source code released to the public, not even Windows 3.1. Without the source code, it is near impossible (and very illegal) to port it to any other platform. No source code, no un-official port.

I don't consider Windows running under emulation equals Windows running on a platform. For starters, its not a hack at all, If linux can run then of course you can use an emulator to emulate Windows but it really isn't 'running' Windows. There will also be a huge performance and stability lose which will make Windows unusable apart from the very basic of applications anyway which makes it pointless as you would get better performance by running the same applications straight through wine or by using an alternative (and free) linux version of the software you wish to run.

Unless Microsoft steps up to the plate and allows Windows to run on other platforms, it will never happen.
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darkshadow2k8

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« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2008, 03:11:00 AM »
wont work but would like it most u probly would ever see if possible would be osx but probly not even that besides while the cpu is good the 360 only has 512mb ram yes its ddr3 but everyone uses 1gb minimum and than theres driver support so i think linux is the best we got for the 360
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« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2008, 06:53:00 AM »
QUOTE(Wilhelm_I @ Sep 13 2008, 11:43 PM) View Post

...wine is just an emulator...


WINE stands for 'Wine Is Not an Emulator'...  tongue.gif haha
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