wine users - May 2010 - Run WINE on Windows?

Just hear me out for a moment :)

I have a Linux desktop, that up until I bought a laptop with Windows 7 was my
sole computer that dual-booted Slackware and Windows XP.  When I still had
Windows XP on the desktop, I fell in love with EA Sports's NASCAR SimRacing.

Around the time I got the laptop, the hard drive on which XP was installed began
to fail, so I disconnected it and disposed of it, and didn't bother to
replace it with another hard drive w/Windows because my new laptop served just
fine for Windows stuff.

Now, while I loved NASCAR SimRacing, it had some performance issues. 
Specifically, after about half an hour or so the system would spontaneously
reset, which was a problem since the only problem with NSR itself is that it has
no in-race save feature.  I suspected that that was due to overheating--airflow
is a problem since the only place I had (and still have) to keep that desktop is
in a fairly confined space.

Because of this, I don't want to try to run SimRacing in WINE on the Linux
installation on that same desktop--if it had problems running natively in
Windows, it's likely to be absolutely unusable with WINE/Linux.

Now, I've tried to run NSR on my Windows 7 laptop, only to discover that
they are incompatible.  However, looking through the AppDB, it appears that NSR
runs excellently under WINE.  Thus, what I'd like to do is be able to find a
way to run WINE on Windows 7, so I can run NSR through it and see how well I can
get it to work.

Thoughts?

On 2 May 2010 19:51, Kurt M. Weber <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Now, I've tried to run NSR on my Windows 7 laptop, only to discover
that they are incompatible. ?However, looking through the AppDB, it appears that
NSR runs excellently under WINE. ?Thus, what I'd like to do is be able to
find a way to run WINE on Windows 7, so I can run NSR through it and see how
well I can get it to work.
> Thoughts?

Lots of people have thought about the inherently bad and wrong idea of
running Wine on Windows ;-)

http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows

Main problems:

1. It doesn't even compile yet.
2. Even if it did, apparently the Wine program launcher won't run on
Windows (I don't understand why, but apparently this is the case), so
programs won't run.

So the main purpose at the moment is (a) spotting and clearing
gratuitous Linuxisms in the code (b) sheer perversity.

I'm actually compiling it (in TinyXP in a VirtualBox) right now ;-)


- d.

Something most people are not aware is that all Unix/Linux/BSD kernels cannot
load dynamic binarys at all.

Instead depend on little user space programs to it.   Like ld-linux.so.2 yes it
hides as a library.

Where windows dynamic loader is part of kernel.

Hello major issue.  Wine can work since it replaces the Unix/Linux/BSD dynamic
loader.

Under windows it requires adding a windows subsystem that would be a completely
different design.  Then you would have two subsystems fighting to load the
binary.  Not fun.

Could you use windows 7 "xp mode" to run the game?