[Wine] wine and vmware

[John Drescher]

> what is the differences between wine and vmware?
> thanks in advance.
>

Completely different. VMWare allows you to install an entire windows
(or other os) install under any os that vmware is installed. While
wine lets you run windows applications under any os that wine is
supported without installing an entire operating system. On top of the
space savings of not needing to install a full os running most
applications under wine is significantly faster than vmware even on
machines with hardware virtulization support. Compile a large
application under vmware (or any other virtulization technology) and
compare that to native speed and you will see that it takes 2  to 10
times longer under virtulization. Since wine is not an emulator it
does not have this performance penalty.

John