windows XP versus wine

Jörg Kühne · Post by **Jörg Kühne** » Thu May 22, 2008 10:29 am

Hallo wine user team,

I am not sure if I need an original XP version to work with wine. In other words. Can I use wine without installing XP, for example. Because I have several old applications, which I would like to run on linux together with wine. Would wine emulates the hardware like a virtual machine, or takes wine the local hardware to deal with?

Thanks for your answer in advanced.

best regards

jeorg
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austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu May 22, 2008 10:37 am

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:26 AM, "JÃ¶rg KÃ¼hne" <[email protected]> wrote:

Hallo wine user team,

I am not sure if I need an original XP version to work with wine. In other words. Can I use wine without installing XP, for example. Because I have several old applications, which I would like to run on linux together with wine. Would wine emulates the hardware like a virtual machine, or takes wine the local hardware to deal with?

No, you do not need a windows installation. Wine translates the
Windows API calls into native calls for you. Check the AppDB
(appdb.winehq.org) to see if your app is listed and any issues you may
encounter.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu May 22, 2008 10:49 am

Jörg Kühne wrote:Hallo wine user team,

I am not sure if I need an original XP version to work with wine. In other words. Can I use wine without installing XP, for example. Because I have several old applications, which I would like to run on linux together with wine. Would wine emulates the hardware like a virtual machine, or takes wine the local hardware to deal with?

You should read FAQ. All these questions are answered there already. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ

Jörg Kühne · Post by **Jörg Kühne** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:09 am

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Datum: Thu, 22 May 2008 10:49:26 -0500
Von: "vitamin" <[email protected]>
An: [email protected]
Betreff: [Wine] Re: windows XP versus wine

Jörg Kühne wrote:
Hallo wine user team,

I am not sure if I need an original XP version to work with wine. In
other words. Can I use wine without installing XP, for example. Because I have
several old applications, which I would like to run on linux together with
wine. Would wine emulates the hardware like a virtual machine, or takes
wine the local hardware to deal with?

You should read FAQ. All these questions are answered there already.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ

Hello again,

not all of them are listed in FAQ. As far as I have seen, there is nothing about hardware emulation. Is it possible, if I have the newest hardware that the artificial windows XP from wine doesn't run on it, or emulates wine a older hardware which is compatible?

regards,

Joerg

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Post by **dimesio** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:39 am

AFAIK, Wine doesn't emulate hardware. If your hardware doesn't work in Linux, it won't work in Wine.

Ove Kaaven · Post by **Ove Kaaven** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:46 am

Jörg Kühne skrev:

not all of them are listed in FAQ. As far as I have seen, there is nothing about hardware emulation.

"Hardware emulation" questions might be answered here:
http://wiki.winehq.org/Debunking_Wine_Myths

The name Wine itself traditionally stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator",
so most people don't have to ask.