Wine?

[Russ Foster]

> > 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.

The point of the original post was: don't run video editing software in a
virtualized environment on a local machine.

More specifically; there are two very resource intensive applications, video
editing and sound editing.  These will not run better in a virtualized
environment under any circumstances.

-r