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Re: QEmu and Wine



OoO En ce début d'après-midi ensoleillé du lundi 31 janvier 2005, vers
15:06, "Bas v.d. Wiel" <bas@extranet.kompas-media.nl> disait:

> There's no way to run Wine on anything other than an x86 platform. On a 
> PPC you have to emulate the complete CPU, which WINE doesn't do and thus 
> it only exists for x86. Your free alternatives for PPC under Linux are 
> Bochs and Qemu. They both emulate a complete x86 system under Linux on 
> your PPC. However, don't expect anything near the performance of WINE as 
> it is on an x86.

Qemu is also able to do CPU emulation at application level. This means
that  you  can  launch  Linux/x86  applications  from  Linux/PPC.  For
example, Macromedia Flash.  You should then be able  to launch Wine as
well.
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