On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 15:08, peter4444 <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > what is the difference between wine and a virtualisation like virtualbox? Wine runs (some) Windows applications under Linux / other Unix-like OSes... Virtualbox runs operating systems... If the application runs, Wine is usually much quicker. Wine might also support 3D acceleration in cases where virtualization won't. (This is getting less of a problem...) (Wine emulates a Windows environment, Virtualbox emulates a computer) > what are advantages and disadvantages compared to each other? Virtualbox requires a Windows license, but more applications work (since they are running on actual Windows). It also uses more memory (unless you hit a memory leak in Wine....) eand tend to run somewhat slower (since you are running an entire operating system...) VMs also tend to have timing issues... http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf Gert
