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avisser
on Jan 24, 2017
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Wine 2.0 released
To be pedantic, VMWare is a virtual machine. It sure as hell doesn't emulate your x86 CPU.
wtallis
on Jan 25, 2017
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VMWare has historically used emulation for kernel/privileged code when the host CPU doesn't allow for direct virtualization. VMWare also emulates peripheral hardware. Wine doesn't emulate any hardware.
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