Wine?

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, November 01, 2010 08:31 PM, Russ Foster 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.
>
> The point of the original post was: don't run video editing software in a
> virtualized environment on a local machine.

So?


>
> 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.
>

That was not spelled out. The statement is far more encompassing given 
that financial software was also mentioned.