From: "Mehul Ved" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:22:59 +0530 Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installing Windows applications via virtualbox or WINE On 8/27/08, Erach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems my Visual Basic, Visual Windows C++ and Microsoft Windows 98 > edition are finally obsoleted if I try to use Wine but not if I use > virtual box.
Yes, cos the dll's available in wine are newer. Wouldn't it be the same in case of using later versions of windows? No, virtualbox emulates the Intel hardware and you select the version of the hardware and the guest and host operating system. Then you install your copy of Windows and then run visual c++ and visual basic on it. Do do the same in linux, one would have to run different instances of virtual box on linux, below the virtual box, run different (older) versions of WINE and then the visual C++ and visual basic would run legally under the different versions of WINE. By the way, I did run Microsoft Office under WINE, and TALLY under WINE but the next day they did not run. I wish somebody would come up with an open source / free ERP version / or at least a TALLY. Erach -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
