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698 Part V . SUSE Linux in the Enterprise Note Figure 28-3: A Windows installer running under Wine Due to the complexity and size of the Windows API, Wine is always a work in progress, and all Windows packages do not run correctly under Wine. For information about which Windows applications run correctly under Wine, see http:// appdb.winehq.org. A commercially supported version of Wine known as CrossOver Office is available from CodeWeavers (www.codeweavers.com). This version of Wine provides enhancements and bug fixes that enable it to run many more applications, such as the complete Microsoft Office suite, than the free version of Wine. The CodeWeavers folks are very good about working directly with the Wine community, are the leading commercial sponsor of the Wine project, and push all of their fixes into the open source version of Wine. CrossOver Office is an excellent investment if you need to run Office or other resource-intensive software packages on your Linux system. As a matter of fact, this section of this chapter was written in Word running under CodeWeavers Wine implementation. The bochs PC Emulator The bochs project goes back a long way. It is a free (licensed under the GNU LGPL) PC hardware emulator that provides a complete emulation of PC hardware in software. As is the case with QEMU and VMWare (see later in the chapter), you can install an operating system into bochs. However, bochs does not offer virtualization of the underlying hardware to the guest. This means that it can be built and run on any Unix-like platform on any hardware architecture, but it also means that it is slow. For most practical purposes, if you want to run x86 operating systems as virtual machines on x86 hardware, then either QEMU (free) or VMWare (proprietary and commercial) will probably be a better first choice.
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