Wine vs VMWare

[OOzy]

Hi

I want to run all my windows app under Linux. Can any one tell me which software should I use: Wine or VMWare?

OOzy

 

[ianf]

It depends if you want to pay for it/hold valid licenses for business use or not ? As I understand WINE is a public license and VMWare is commercially licensed.

On a technical front I've played with both, sorry, done extensive evaluation work on both, and prefered VMWare. Not really any major reasons, except that I could install as many different OSs as I wanted, not just Windoze. We ended up with LINUX on M$ on LINUX with a further nest of Solaris on LINUX. Of course there is an overhead, but isn't there always.

On the other hand I'm pretty sure that WINE is a more 'efficient' way to do this kind of OS nesting and of course free is the cheapest that you can get. Ian

"IF" is not a word it's a way of life

 

[rycamor]

There are two other projects I know of: Plex86, at

http://www.plex86.org,

or Win4Lin at

http://www.netraverse.com/

 

[Karl Blessing]

vmware is good if you want to emulate almost any x86 OS, wine is eh ok, for some of the generic stuff I tried.

I heard that win4lin is the best windows emulator for Linux. Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}

 

[Bugermass]

I have a friend who has win4Lin and he says it works really well.. He had WIN2K installed under linux and used 3DSMAX 4 under WIN2K under Linux with no probs....