[Wine] How to make a simple win32 software to work under wine

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 07:40:11 CST 2010


> I would just think that it would be an easy way to run Windows application or games if we install either "VirtualBox"  or  "VMware"  or other virtualisation application.

Games generally do not work well in virtualisation. Too much performance hit.

>Because in future sooner or later all the microsoft runtime libraries or framework also need the user to have a valid Windows license.
>
> This will be their market strategy all the time. I hate this, but no choice.
>

For this they are restricting their licences on some of their runtimes.

John



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