Main reason to run "native": No longer have distribution, license keys, or installation does not work in Wine. Another reason to install additionally in Wine: So as not to disrupt .ini files with options that may be largely not compatible! Need for native Windows registry--the only one I can think of is license keys are often placed there and if I cannot reinstall from scratch... Another idea might be that certain dlls need be registered to be used and that data is there--examples are DirectX plugins (which probably would not work in Wine anyway). I have had little problems running native installations in Wine. Indeed, any buggy behavior I found existed both ways. I would not expect Wine to explicitely support running native installations but this is in fact a test of its capabilities. To simply flame anyone who tries it is also not the best practice. The information is useful. BTW, emulator virtual machines will not support running off or duplicating native windows installations. Windows installs for the hardware at hand and the real hardware is not necessarily related to the emulated hardware (Only Parallels on an Intel-Mac can do this). VirtualBox has problems with Win98 and must provide its own faked hardware (they call it "guest additions"--they have none for Win98) to run other Windows correctly. Qemu fakes more or less standard hardware for which Windows has drivers. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
