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[Antony]

DARWINE, an open source project, intends to port and develop WINE as well as other supporting tools that will allow Darwin and Mac OS X users to run Windows Applications. The project is described as being in pre-alpha stage, which means the project is in its early stages, far from working software.

WINE is software for PCs running Linux or FreeBSD Unix. WINE runs Windows applications without running Windows--the Windows apps appear directly in a Unix windowing environment. Rather an emulating a PC, WINE (which requires Intel hardware) provides the Windows APIs for the apps. This means on PC hardware, it can run faster than an emulator such as Virtual PC.

DARWINE will also run on a PC running Darwin, Apple's open source Mac OS X core based on FreeBSD. To run on a Mac and Mac OS X, DARWINE will need an x86 emulator. The DARWINE project is working on integrating an emulator, such as Bochs, but has not gotten that far yet. However, even with an emulator, a DARWINE for Mac OS X could run faster than Virtual PC due to the absence of Windows itself. (MacWindows reports)

We hope to see a product faster and easier to use than VirtualPC.

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[Wellander]

Hi,
What is vurtil pc?
I have no

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[Antony]

VirtualPC (for Mac) is an x86 emulation application (a.k.a. emulator) running under Mac OS. Under VirtualPC, people can install Linux, OS/2 or Windows.

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[DJGM]

Wellander,

VirtualPC (not vurtil pc) is an application originally made only for Macintosh, that emulates x86
type PC hardware, enabling you to run Windows, or other PC operating systems like Linux
upon a Macintosh, either within an application window, or full screen, as though natively.

Connectix, the creators of VirtualPC, also made a version of the program to run on a PC
running Windows, so that PC users could be able to run other versions of Windows, or
almost any other PC operating system, on top of their existing version of Windows.

About a year ago, Connectix and it's technologies were acquired by Microsoft. Because of this
acquisiton, it appears that VirtualPC is now primarily an application for Windows, with Mac
users playing second fiddle. The next major release version, Microsoft VirtualPC 2004, will
be released for Windows to start with, followed by a Macintosh version sometime later
this year. The Windows version of Microsoft VPC2004 was "released to manfacturing"
on 2nd December 2003. There has been no official public release yet.

The only new version of VirtualPC that has been publicly released by Microsoft since the
acquisiton, has been a minor upgrade to Connectix VirtualPC v6.0 for Macintosh, which
updates the version number to 6.1, and adds a few enhancements and bugfixes.

Since VirtualPC is now Microsoft software, I guess it's probably only a matter of time
before we start getting reports of security vulnerabilities appearing in the program!

More about VirtualPC at the links below . . .

Microsoft VirtualPC for Macintosh
Microsoft VirtualPC for Windows

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[Josh]

DJGM, Is the difference between VirtualPC and WINE is that with VPC you need a copy of Windows and with WINE, the Windows core has been reverse-engineered?

Am I correct?

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[Antony]

WINE provides Windows APIs for running Windows applications.
VirtualPC emulates x86, and ideally you may install any operating systems running under x86.

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