[Wine] Just saw a great question/idea - Wine & Windows support

[A. Tres Finocchiaro]

bmullan,

In the beginning stages, it was commonplace for people to use real windows
installs for wine.  I'm not sure if it was because of the compatibility
FAT32 or if it was because so many dlls were missing back then.
Unfortunately, at least from a development standpoint... that makes every
environment so drastically different that it makes it nearly impossible to
track bugs because everyone's wine configuration is COMPLETELY different.

As vitamin said, VMWare does something similar to what you are talking about
to an extent by allowing you to run your windows program in linux in their
own environment.  The idea is not a bad idea and it has been thought of in
the past, but the status of wine now is quite independant by design, and it
has been making progress with that direction.

I think there's some limitations to running wine on NTFS that keeps your
programs from working seemlessly in wine, but I'm sure that's also
application dependant.

-Tres

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:53 PM, vitamin <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:

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> bmullan wrote:
> > Is it possible for people with dual boot computers, since they already
> have the windows system files on their hard drive and they are accessible
> through linux, to somehow make a program that finds these files and uses
> them in linux when ever you want to use a windows program?
>
> Of course, that's how most virtual machines can run - using real disk
> partitions instead of virtual drives.
>
> Wine can't and won't do that. It requires access to binary registry files
> that have no documented file format. Besides it's too late to look for all
> bits and pieces of an application _after_ it's installed. It should be done
> _during_ the installation.
>
> And of course you risking Windows system corruption by Wine. There are lots
> of things Wine don't care about, while Windows does.
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