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Old October 2nd 10, 12:47 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Alain Dekker[_2_]
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Default Wine emulation on Linux

Does anyone have any experience of using hardware with drivers written for
Windows on the Wine emulator on Linux?

Thanks in advance,
Alain


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Old October 3rd 10, 03:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Default Wine emulation on Linux

On 10/01/2010 06:47 PM, Alain Dekker wrote:
Does anyone have any experience of using hardware with drivers written for
Windows on the Wine emulator on Linux?

Thanks in advance,
Alain





I've found that Wine will run most Windows apps ok (but not all)

as to drivers...the device must be installed in Linux

Wine does not perform driver emulation nor is that it's function


If you have hardware that not supported by Linux
you'd need to then run Windows in a virtual machine
or dual boot
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Old October 8th 10, 11:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Default Wine emulation on Linux

On 01/10/2010 7:47 PM, Alain Dekker wrote:
Does anyone have any experience of using hardware with drivers written for
Windows on the Wine emulator on Linux?

Thanks in advance,
Alain



As philo said, Wine is only an applications-level emulator, it doesn't
run device drivers.

You might be better off running a full virtualization software, like KVM
or VirtualBox, but even there it's doubtful whether your hardware will
be seen as they emulate their own standard hardware.

Yousuf Khan
 




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