[Wine] Quality of system images captured with (G)ImageX

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 10:40:41 CST 2009


On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:27 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:56 AM, ss26 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>>
>> vitamin wrote:
>>> Any direct hardware access does not function on Wine with few exceptions.
>>>
>>> Wine does not care about what file system on a device. So none of the NTFS specific featurs are supported.
>>
>> Thank you, it seems this was not a good idea.......
>>
> It is a good idea because very few applications make use of rarely
> used (and not needed) ntfs features to make them work. Being
> skeptical, I believe the reason for the application doing this is just
> to prevent the application from running under wine.
>
> John
>
>

Doubtful. They probably don't want users to be able to get raw access
to the files.

-- 
-Austin



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