Can I use every Windows application if I install a Windows emulator?

Question

Dear All, I have just installed my very first Linux distribution, and I would like to ask if I can use my TV tuner card (it has a driver and applications only for Windows) if I use a Windows emulator?

Answer 1

Emulators usually won't let you have direct access to the hardware. If your Tv card happens to be a usb version you may get lucky that way. Myth Tv is a front end for linux that has alot of support with Tv cards that you may want to check out.

Answer 2

Unlikely but not totally impossible. Depends on exactly how it works.

See, modern Windows is like an onion (or an ogre): It's got layers. (Modern Windows smell about as bad, too!)

Drivers talk to the hardware abstraction layer (HAL), not to the Windows Kernel or the API or GUI layers. Unless your LINUX Windows emulator provides a compatible HAL, a real driver won't work. A pseudo-driver might. Pseudo-drivers actually use Windows services to do everything. But as specialized at that device seems to be, it might not. On the other hand, visit that manufacturer's web page to see if they have a LINUX driver you can download.

Answer 3

I doubt it! Drivers are different then an Emulator. An Emulator is to make the Program THINK it is running on windows. were as a driver is working with the hard ware! This you really can fool! But that isn't to say the drivers might work or other drivers (buy the maker of the chip set) might work.

Answer 4

you may choose a 64bit processor that's the AMD 64fx chip exists in some laptops as we talk. nevertheless it extremely is beneficial to place in homestead windows 32 bit besides. The overall performance income isn't juge till you employ specific extreme classes that are 64bit compatable. homestead windows sixty 4 bit has been nicely-known to have motive force subject concerns.

Answer 5

No. www.google.com "yourlinuxdistro thehardwareorsoftwarein question" will tell you if and how

Answer 6

don't know