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Re:Wine 2.0 released by avisser on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:26PM (#13476331)
To be pedantic, VMWare is a virtual machine. It sure as hell doesn't emulate your x86 CPU.
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Re:Wine 2.0 released by wtallis on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @12:05AM (#13478703)
VMWare has historically used emulation for kernel/privileged code when the host CPU doesn't allow for direct virtualization. VMWare also emulates peripheral hardware. Wine doesn't emulate any hardware.
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