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 From:  Michael Gibson
4879.13 In reply to 4879.11 
Hi Chris,

> If Wine(skin) is anything like Parallels, Vmware etc, I guess
> this is just the Wine VM core

Wine is not quite the same kind of system as Parallels and VMWare - Wine doesn't actually run a full "virtual machine" - it's more like a compatibility library that translates Windows calls into their unix equivalents.

It doesn't really emulate a full machine environment, it only does anything when MoI makes a Windows system call.

Parallels and VMWare are pretty different - they actually run a full copy of Windows in a completely virtualized environment.

- Michael