From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
   > On Sunday 05 August 2012 19:25, Adam conveyed the following to   
   > alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
      
   >> I never thought of that!  I'm familiar with VirtualBox but not with   
   >> Wine, so every problem looks like... :-)  Good suggestion.   
   >   
   > Mind you, there is no guarantee that it'll work.  It all depends on how   
   > much of the Wintendo API those applications need, and whether or not   
   > they require direct access to the hardware.   
      
   AFAIK neither needs to access the hardware; both just process an input   
   file.  The only Windows executables that need hardware access AFAIK are   
   the manufacturer's firmware updates (including that BIOS update),   
   distributed as *.exe files, and I run those under what's left of the   
   native Windows this box shipped with.   
      
   Adam   
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