Wine?

[Christopher Chan]

On Saturday, October 30, 2010 05:53 AM, Steve Flynn wrote:

> Do have a nice day, and don't run your mission critical software in
> emulated or virtualised environments, or you're asking for pain.
>

Prove it.  You have entire providers of VM environments and the only 
pain you get is if you are running a bastardized version of whatever 
they give you but that is not because of the VM environment. Those who 
don't muck about with the operating system do not have any extra pain 
from running things in a VM than they do natively and might even get 
bonuses that reduce pain in certain scenarios compared to running natively.

As for emulated, some things actually run better under Wine so that 
really depends on your mission critical software.