understanding an emulator

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> Vince,
> could you kindly make me understand the followiing topic.
> 
> an emulator like WINE or WMware is:
> 
> a.) running  a program ("name_of_application".EXE-file) from the source,  
> where this program originaly got fully installed - like Dreamweaver which  
> is installed on a partition (Windwos XP) on my harddisk. most probably you  
> may have to make some settings - like for DLL's - to make it run.
> 
> or
> 
> b) the installation of a certain program on an other partition on the disk  
> is not at all "attractive" for WINE or VMware, as you have to install  
> every single program under WINE or VMware again.
> 
> which of those two is now true?
> 
> regards for clearifying that
> 
> René

Hi René, I am hardly qualified on these things, I don't know much about
these things. 

About Wine, I can only speak from memory, as I tried it only very
briefly, but it worked like you describe in a)
Seems manypeople use wine so hopefully someone can tell you mmore about
it than I can.

About VMware, as far as I can see, it's very different from Wine. VMware
let's you create "virtual machines", called "guests". Once the machine
is created, it acts like a real machine. You can power it on, put it in
"sleep" mode, turn it off. When you start a virtual machine, it boots
like a real machine would (you can even enter the BIOS if you like). So,
you just put your Windows XP install CD to install windows, then install
all your programs on top of it, etc.
It's truly magic, it never ceases to amaze me.


Vince