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

[<burlingk@example.com>]

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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:19:18 +0900
> From: "Erin D. Hughes" <erin-hughes@example.com>
> Subject: Re: [tlug] Xen advice, please: Wine is not Virtualization
> To: Tokyo Linux Users Group <tlug@example.com>
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> burlingk@example.com wrote:
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> >Xen, VMware, are virtual machines.  They emulate everything from the 
> >ground up.  They do something totally different from WINE.  
> Basically 
> >"WINE Is Not an Emulator", a virtual machine is. ^_^
> >
> >  
> >
> No actually xen, does Paravirtualization[1] 
> http://www.xensource.com/xen/xen/paravirtualiz> ation.html
> 
> 
> Where VMWare does full virtualization. Where as 
> it tries to emulate 
> every portion of the hardware.
> 

I stand corrected.  I didn't realize that Xen was a separate concept
from VMware. :P
As for whether or not wine is an emulator, I was more focused on machine
emulation.  :-)