VMWare / Wine

[Ouattara Oumar Aziz]

Patton Echols a écrit :
> This is a new thread but related to my last question about VMWare.  That 
> last discussion took a turn to discussing thin clients in the 
> educational setting.  A good discussion on its own but raises additional 
> questions for me.
> 
> 
> My understanding is that wine can be used for running individual windows 
> apps under linux.  vmware is used for running an entire windows (or 
> other os) environment under linux.  Currently my laptop can dual boot 
> Ubuntu Edgy and XP home.  Though I have moved the majority of my digital 
> life to Ubuntu, there are still some windows apps that I need to keep.  
> I have not yet figured out either wine or vmware. 
> 
> In either case, my understanding is that I can run wine / VM  and point 
> to the Win program / partition to run.  The difference as I see it is 
> that Vmware would give access to the entire windows desktop while wine 
> would just run the program.  Again, this is probably one of those things 
> that is obvious once you have worked with it even a little bit, I've 
> been reading but have not attempted to do either.  I had mostly 
> concluded from reading that the VMWare route was the better choice, but 
> since it takes more setup, I had not gotten to it yet.  The recent 
> edubuntu / ltsp thread makes me wonder whether I need to do more 
> thinking on the subject.
> 
> Does anyone have thoughts on why I should choose one route over the other?
> 
> Thanks
> 

I'll tell you what I thing are the main differences between Wine (and 
its forks : Cedega and CrossOverOffice) and VMware :

Wine :
- no need for windows license
- very light.
- some windows applications won't run on it.

VMware
- need a windows installation ( just one is enough , you can clone the VM )
- need to run an OS over an OS ( which requires great host performances)
- every windows apps will run on it (but Direct X ones - this features 
is on testing in VMware Workstation 6 )

So the use of one of them depends on what you want to do with it.