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