wine users - Jul 2011 - Emulation question

So, let's say i have a cluster from 2 ARM Cortex A9 boards.

Theoretically it's possible somehow that one board to act like a x86
processor (to emulate one) at full power, and other to run the software itself

and yes i know that this is not a hardware forum, sorry for that, u guys r the
best !

totorro wrote:
> So, let's say i have a cluster from 2 ARM Cortex A9 boards.
Wine does not emulate CPU. Even if you manage to compile Wine on ARM it
won't be able to run Windows programs.


totorro wrote:
> Theoretically it's possible somehow that one board to act like a x86
processor
In the word of software everything is possible with enough time, effort, and
money.

totorro what you are talking about is not wine as such.

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-doc.html#QEMU-User-space-emulator  allows it
to kinda work today.

In theory this could be extended on to allow wineserver to run arm native and
the rest inside the emulator.  But doing some brings a set of  major problems. 
Basically to embed qemu you are talking many weeks/Maybe months of work.   Yes
this is where is the money kind of problem if you want it any time soon if ever.

Also x86 emulation is not light so the performance results are not going to be
great.   Lot of cases the resources would be better spent recoding the programs
you need.  Speed hit is taken just sorting out video issues.  This will be a
extra speed hit on top.  Lagging not performing applications are really not
worth it.