How wine works?

[TotalPenguin]

Will wine run the windows applications directly in linux? or will it will run into a window like a vmware session with the emulated environment?

Thanks.

[v0id]

Wine is an emulator. It does not need Windows at all.

[Jordan]

Yup, so it will actually run it directly on Linux.

[TotalNoob]

What about the setup?

[v0id]

What do you mean about the setup?

[TotalNoob]

I mean to install windows applications we have to run the setup. What about this in Linux? Does it 'virtually' install or something?

[v0id]

I don't think Wine is able to emulate an installation/setup-process, but I'm not sure. I've never tried it.

[TotalNoob]

Hmm I think that will be a problem if it didn't... because most applications need to be installed in order to run.

BTW does it emulate the registry too?

[v0id]

IMHO it isn't a problem. Personally, I never use Wine, or anything Windows-related. If I wanted to use Windows-applications, then I would not use Linux but Windows. I think you should see if you could find a Linux-application which looks a little like the one you had on Windows, and then use that application, instead of emulating.

Yes, Wine supports registry keys.

Edit:
I found two useful links about Wine and registry keys.
http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys
http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine.../using-regedit

[TotalPenguin]

The simplest way - find alternatives.. or install Windows on WMware running on Linux.