Running a Linux Binary (Executable) in Windows Machine [And then from Matlab(windows)]

Oxford team has shared the following linux binary.

And my objective was to run this executable(compute_descriptors.ln) from Matlab command prompt of windows! So, here what I did!

1. Installation of VMware player in windows PC and then install Ubuntu 11.xx inside Vmware player

2. Installation of openSSH-Server in Ubuntu
To install the server run the following command in termial
#sudo apt-get install openssh-server

3. Downloading putty.zip (windows ssh client to access the Ubuntu server) and extract 

4. Now in Matlab, go the putty folder that you have just extracted and from there use plink to run any command in the ubuntu terminal such as the following

Matlab promot > !plink -pw YOUR_UBUNTU_PASSWORD  USERNAME@HOST_IP ls -l

[Replace the capital letters with your PC's information!] To learn More about Plink please visit http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.58/htmldoc/Chapter7.html#plink

Copy the img1.ppm and img1.haraff into the /home/username folder of Ubuntu 

So, running this  binary will be 

Matlab promot >!plink -pw YOUR_UBUNTU_PASSWORD  USERNAME@HOST_IP ./compute_descriptors.ln -sift -i img1.ppm -p1 img1.haraff  -o1 img1.haraff.sift

Copying the file from the ubunutu (/home/username) will be following command

Matlab Promt>  !pscp  -pw YOUR_UBUNTU_PASSWORD  USERNAME@HOST_IP :/home/username/img1.haraff.sift img1.haraff.sift

Isn't it awesome!