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:
1) If I run Wine, do I introduce security or performance issues?
2) 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.)
Thanks for any recommendations. I like VirtualBox, but it seems like overkill.
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.
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Christopher Chanchristopher.chan@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
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?
Good. I wanted to make sure I wasn't introducing Windows problems into Linux.
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.
Okay, I'll start studying a bit about Wine (which usually means, I install it and start playing around with it).
If the program runs under Wine, then yeah...overkill.
I'll install Wine and follow up with a status report.
Thanks.
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Ron Blizzardrb4centos@gmail.com 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?
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.)
Thanks for any recommendations. I like VirtualBox, but it seems like overkill.
FWIW, Google's Picasa for Linux runs on a Google customized version of WINE. I haven' seen any issues with Picasa on CentOS 5.3 (32 bit). YMMV
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Lanny Marcuslmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
FWIW, Google's Picasa for Linux runs on a Google customized version of WINE. I haven' seen any issues with Picasa on CentOS 5.3 (32 bit). YMMV
I've never used it, but I'm glad it works well. I haven't had time to try Wine yet, but hopefully will in the next couple days. Thanks.
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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?
If wine isn't running at all, when you start a Windows app, there is a bit of system resource overhead for starting the wine services, mainly some RAM usage. That should be expected however, as you can't magically run Windowss softwarre without the code existing to do so. ;o)
Whether or not a given app runs with performance or security issues is going to vary widely from app to app, and one version of wine to another, along with many other factors. Wine is a moving target.
- 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.)
My builds of wine are made by taking the Fedora wine package, making some minor fixes to the file manifests and reconfiguring the build to build clean on EL5. When I'm actively using wine on a regular basis from time to time, I update my builds to track the wine project's latest release, however I haven't been testing new versions for a few months as I've been busy with other stuff. I should probably update it again soon though. I'll do a test build of the latest upstream tonight and if I get it rolling, I'll update my repo.
Hope this helps.
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