Re: [tlug] Xen advice, please: Wine is not Virtualization

[Jim <jep200404@example.com>]

Keith R Mannisto wrote:

> In this thread, WINE seems to be missing.
> Is there any reason to exclude WINE as an option?

Wine and Xen are different _kinds_ of things. 

Wine is a (big!) shim that allows one to run Windows programs under 
Linux(/Unix?). It does not allow one to run the whole 
(Windows) operating system, nor does it offer the strong 
sandbox that virtualization offers. 

Often Linux folks will use virtualization to run multiple 
instances of Linux (not Windows). This can be for security, 
for running (perhaps old) applications under the 
specific version of Linux that they require, 
or for developinng and testing Linux applications under a 
variety of distributions.