Motivation
Running some applications works with wine (the translation layer between linux and windows), but some stuff does not.
The option to have windows in a container is supposed to be easier than setting up a virtualbox and running the applications over there
Installation
- App image version did not work for me, but the deb package was pretty simple following the steps on the website.
- The installer has a completion marks (requires installing docker, adding a user to docker group etc).
- Each completion mark has a help-page how to do it.
- To get some checkmarks green requires switching the application on and off and even restarting the computer (not remember properly now).
- Installation of windows takes a long time (requires no intervention) maybe an hour or so.
Integrations needed
Connecting the filesystem for sharing files
The ‘Home’ directory is mounted in Network -> host.lan -> Data
Works
Clipboard
- Text: copying in windows, and pasting into linux terminal and vice versa works
- Files: drag and drop or copy-paste from neither side does not work
- Images: Screenshot from linux to windows powerpoint does not work
USB
Does not appear by default on my system, not sure how to do it.
Modifying files created in winboat in the ubuntu syste
The files coming from the container are owned by root, so can be only read, not modified by the normal useer in Ubuntu.
To change this behaviour for each folder you need to make the whole content of the folder reowned by the user.
Example for the presentations folder:
sudo chown -R vld:vld ~/Documents/PRESENTATIONS
**Note:**Should be possible to do in a more clean way in the future, but this is okey for now
Programs to run inside the winboat:
Microsoft office suite
- Start the “WIndows desktop” application in “Apps” in Winboat
- Go to microsoft store select microsoft office
- Log into your account
- Install microsoft office Works
ZEN sofware
- Download the msi installer from the zeiss download center and put it on the C of the winboat
- Do the installation as normal works