Wine is an emulator, not a virtual machine. This means, in the case of wine,
that you do not need windows - wine takes the place of it. For those of you
who aren't computer geeks, I'd take a look at an inexpensive software package
called "Crossover". It takes care of all the details of configuring wine and
making it work. It facilitates the installation of software, the management of
the emulation, etc.,.
To really understand the finer points of virtual machines requires a discussion
of chip architecture and other nastiness best avoided in a family friendly
forum, but if you are using one of the virtual machine solutions, then yes, at
some point you will be installing all of the operating systems you wish to run.
The details vary with the virtual machine software. They are a very good
solution, and will run almost everything you throw at them, Wine or
Wine/Crossover does not require additional OS licensing, but is not as
compatible either.
For myself, on Linux I use Wine/Crossover, on my Macs I use a virtual machine
and an OS license.
On Friday 30 November 2007 13:59, Ian Wright wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to get my head round the concept of 'virtual machines' the
> other day and failed to understand just how they work - do you have to
> install the other operating system on the machine you are using the
> virtual software on - ie. if you want to run a windoze program on a
> linux machine using Wine - do you have to load a version of windoze also
> or does the Wine prog do some magic? Please explain to yet another
> senior citizen.......!
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