[OBORONA-SPAM] Re: VMWare / Wine

[Gabriel Dragffy]

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

VMware is as far from being a fork of Wine as can be.

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

*most* windows apps won't work


> 
> 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.
> 
>