“When considering emulation, should companies count on a product like CodeWeavers to serve a limited number of applications, or should they choose software that requires them to buy licenses for Windows but can run more applications?” Read Zonker’s article at NewsFactor.
Has OS Emulation Come of Age?
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Is it funny that this article waits until the very last breath to mention Microsoft buying out Connectix VM IP for OS emulation? CodeWeavers, VMWare, WineX… No mention of Connectix VM until the last two paragraphs.
And that’s the stuff no one has really brought up. NT 4.0 need to go away in Microsoft’s plan. There’s so many NT shops still out there that migration is a huge issue.
No. Emulation still has a LONG way to go. The only “emulation” solutions I’ve seen thus far that don’t crash every other click are non PC emulators, and Win4Lin (Though I have not yet seen W4L 4.x as I don’t believe it’s worth the $50 upgrade price for a “scroll wheel capability”.)
You must not be familiar with either Crossover or WineX, neither of which crashes much at all as long as you stick with officially supported applications and games.
I’ve been playing Everquest under WineX for weeks without any crashing at all.
I’ve been interested in VM’s but have never used one and don’t know anyone who does. Are they worth it at this stage? Do they perform well? I can handle a little performance loss; what I can not tolerate is instability. Any first-hand guidance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!!
VMWare v4 to support DirectX?
I can see an end to my Windows partition!
I’d put a wager on being more familiar with WINE than you are, as I have been using WINE in one form or another for years. I am also a codeweavers customer. WineX is good stuff, as is Crossover Plugin. Crossover Office however is another matter entirely. You should note though that Wine Is Not an Emulator hence it was not part of my comment.
And I’d wager that you’re not.
I noted that you put “emulation” in quotes not making it at all clear that you weren’t referring to wine as did the original article.
None of the programs mentioned here are emulators. Wine(X) just provides apis and libraries that Windows software needs and VMs aren’t (full) emulators either of course.
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Wager whatever you want, it matters not to me. Unless you are a wine developer you probably haven’t but hey, whatever. 😉
> None of the programs mentioned here are emulators.
Well, Connectix’s Virtual PC for the Mac would qualify, as it emulated the x86 CPU portion of the environment.
The most sophisticated emulator I’ve seen is ARDI’s Executor (a 68k Macintosh emulator that runs on x86 hardware), which emulates both the 68k hardware and the MacOS operating system, but ARDI seems to have gone into hiding recently…