> what is the differences between wine and vmware? > thanks in advance. > Completely different. VMWare allows you to install an entire windows (or other os) install under any os that vmware is installed. While wine lets you run windows applications under any os that wine is supported without installing an entire operating system. On top of the space savings of not needing to install a full os running most applications under wine is significantly faster than vmware even on machines with hardware virtulization support. Compile a large application under vmware (or any other virtulization technology) and compare that to native speed and you will see that it takes 2 to 10 times longer under virtulization. Since wine is not an emulator it does not have this performance penalty. John
