WINE on Cygwin

[Dave Korn]

Brian Dessent wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>>> But WINE isn't a virtual machine, and it doesn't offer that kind of
>>> protection.  You would need Xen / VMWare / etc for that.
>> 
>>   Oh, I stand corrected.  You mean it doesn't even do
>> virtual-drive-in-a-file-on-the-real-HD then?  That's a shame.
> 
> Well, considering WINE stands for WINE Is Not an Emulator...


  It doesn't need to be an emulator.  It translates file-system accesses from
something like "C:\foo.txt" into something that makes sense to the underlying
FS, yeh?  But that could just as easily be done by translating
device-driver-level read and write block calls into reads and writes to
sectors within a file on the host FS.  The issues of virtualisation/emulation
are entirely orthogonal to that.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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