[Wine] Copy files from Original Windows CD,possible?

Gert van den Berg wine-users at mohag.net
Sun May 10 12:58:53 CDT 2009


On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 15:37, Freakazo <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
> With Virtualization you won't be able to fully use the graphics card or other hardware (except the CPU and a predetermined amount of RAM) so drivers and games won't work under a Virtualized OS.
>
That is changing, quite a few VM's support OpenGL (VirtualBox, maybe
VMWare Workstation, Parallels) and some are supporting DirectX using
Wine DLL's. (Not sure how this is done, the virtual driver probably
intercepts calls, the VM adapts it for running in a possible
non-fullscreen mode and passes it on to the host OS)

MS might be able to implement a DirectX interface as well...

Of course virtualization still requires huge amounts of RAM and needs
to emulate quite a bit of hardware, which is bad for performance.

Gert



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