ix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Well, what do the Wine people say about it? Did you submit a bug > > report? > > certain things just arent implemented in WINE, or cause frequent app > freezes. More precisely, Wine is always one step behind. When Cakewalk needed NT4 emulation, Wine was good at running old win95 versions of Cakewalk; now that SONAR requires XP, Wine can hardly run old NT4 versions. Running SONAR with Wine has been discussed many times on winhq and even on the Cakewalk forum. No luck, they are doing native Windows software and are not willing to do any effort to help SONAR run with Wine. > but we should be looking at why one would > want to use SONAR anyways I have used a dual-boot system for a long time: Windows for audio, Linux for anything else. Now, I want to switch to Linux even for audio, but I'm still in a transitional phase. I have been a Cakewalk user for 15 years since my old Cakewalk Apprentice, and thus I have accumulated a lot of audio work in Cakewalk format (not readable in any Linux software), with tracks using the Cakewalk Direct X plugins (Direct X, not VST, so no jack_fst or whatever). I know that using proprietary software sucks --that's why I am migrating to Linux even for audio-- but the transition is not as easy as I wanted. Using VMware is the only solution that actually works among my numerous tests. The second most promising solution is Qemu. Maybe I should try harder with Qemu instead of VMware. -a.
