2009/12/14 sajadsa <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx>: > what is the differences between wine and vmware? * Wine is a compatibility layer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_layer * VMware is an emulator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator In practical terms: * Wine supplies interfaces that run many Windows programs on a Unix system. The programs run at full native speed and you don't need to buy a copy of Windows. Some programs don't work with Wine, however. * VMware runs a complete emulation of a PC. You need a copy of Windows installed on it to run Windows programs, and they will run more slowly (sometimes a *lot* more slowly) than native speed. However, the Windows programs will mostly work pretty much perfectly. So Wine is better when programs run properly on it, VMware with Windows installed will run almost any Windows program including ones that don't run well in Wine. - d.
