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Anyone know what the benefits/drawbacks are of running WINE on a MacBook/Linix versus running Windows in a VM such as VirtualBox?
by damian2000 14y ago
Anyone know what the benefits/drawbacks are of running WINE on a MacBook/Linix versus running Windows in a VM such as VirtualBox?
- jiggy2011 14y agoWith a VM you will be able to run more software more reliably but suffer a significant performance hit and require a Windows license for the VM and it will take a chunk of your RAM. WINE is more likely to be glitchy & unreliable with many programs, will require special configuration in some cases and may not work at al in others. However since it doesn't have to emulate a computer (it basically re-implements parts of the Windows API) the performance is usually on a par or only slightly worse than native windows. You don't need a Windows license to run WINE however.