Can I run Virtual PC using Wine to load my .vhd files?

[KenF3]

While I understand the differences that are being presented between wine and virtualbox, my question is more geared toward using a program through wine.

I want to use a linux distro (porteus) which I am booting from a USB to run a program such as Virtual PC. I'm mainly using it as a backup situation so that I can boot a virtual machine (VM) from a local computer without having to modify the physical computer's programming. (I.E. Instead of installing ESXi, or Microsoft Hyper-V) I can load Porteus, I can access network storage (which is where the .vhd files are being kept), but I can't start the .vhd due to lack of program support. Can I run Virtual PC using Wine to load my .vhd files?

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:06 PM, KenF3 <[email protected]> wrote:

While I understand the differences that are being presented between wine and virtualbox, my question is more geared toward using a program through wine.

I want to use a linux distro (porteus) which I am booting from a USB to run a program such as Virtual PC. I'm mainly using it as a backup situation so that I can boot a virtual machine (VM) from a local computer without having to modify the physical computer's programming. (I.E. Instead of installing ESXi, or Microsoft Hyper-V) I can load Porteus, I can access network storage (which is where the .vhd files are being kept), but I can't start the .vhd due to lack of program support. Can I run Virtual PC using Wine to load my .vhd files?

No.

John

[KenF3]

are there programs similar to Virtual PC that wine can run?

[ryan woodsmall]

are there programs similar to Virtual PC that wine can run?

Why does it need to run under Wine? This has nothing to do with Wine, and you're just adding on complexity (and headaches) by introducing a platform/API/ABI reimplementation here. A Windows-based virtualization (and/or emulation/simulation) stack is probably not going to work well, or at all, as they make a lot of assumptions about the underlying system. Wine severely complicates already complicated system virtualization options by adding another layer of abstraction into the mix. If it does work, you're probably going to be hit by performance penalties caused by injecting that abstraction.

VirtualBox on Linux should be able to use vhd files for its VM disks. But what you need to do is reevaluate what you're really trying to accomplish here; this is not clear from the thread. It likely won't involve Wine at all. If you need to run and modify VMs, use a VM monitor native to your OS. If you need to run a Windows application, use Wine. There's almost certainly no need to run a Windows-based virtualization solution. -r

[KenF3]

I appologize for not posting that I gave this approach up already. The issue was that I wanted to run virtual pc because I knew it would handle .vhd files. I'm testing out virtualbox at the moment. I need everthing to run from a flash drive on a bare metal machine for emergency disaster recovery situations. I was merely exploring all avenues that I found and wine was one of those avenues. Thank you for your fast response times. I'll probably use wine elsewhere, but just not for this situation.

[vitamin]

Can I run Virtual PC using Wine to load my .vhd files?

No. Everything else is not related to Wine. Topic closed

And note to you KenF3, DO NOT hijack threads or your posts will simply be deleted.