wine users - Aug 2011 - Re: wine vs virtualbox

> Wine's goal is to be compatible with Windows software including copy
protection.

For what I understand, although it may not be an easy job to do, Wine developers
are planning to fully support copy protection at some point. They're not
saying "it's never going to happen", it's just a matter of
work.

M1kkko wrote:
> For what I understand, although it may not be an easy job to do, Wine
developers are planning to fully support copy protection at some point.
They're not saying "it's never going to happen", it's just
a matter of work.
It doesn't matter how hard you try, some things will never work on Wine. Few
examples of such things are:
- Software that explicitly checks for virtual machine/Wine and refuses to start
- Root kits & co that intercept lots of kernel calls. And do other nasty
stuff
- Copy protection schemas that depend on exact timing of some operations (both
software and hardware)

Virtualization emulates the whole stack, including the operating system while
Wine only provides an abstraction layer with the ability to provide applications
with things such as access to dll files.