Ron Blizzard wrote:
VirtualBox works great but, since I only really use one Windows program (an older, specialized word processor called Movie Magic Screenwriter), I'm thinking of using Wine to run it in CentOS and getting rid of the Windows virtual machine. But a couple questions:
- If I run Wine, do I introduce security or performance issues?
Security...no...performance...is that with regards to the rest of the os or the program or in comparison with having Windows in a sandbox like Virtualbox?
- Is there any difference between Michael Harris' Wine repository and
the ones available through... wherever yum is picking it up? (Actually it looks like it has two or three versions listed.)
No comment there but if you run/install anything above wine 1.0 it should be that best deal you can get for running Windows programs under Linux.
Thanks for any recommendations. I like VirtualBox, but it seems like overkill.
If the program runs under Wine, then yeah...overkill.