Wine emulation on Linux

[Alain Dekker]

Does anyone have any experience of using hardware with drivers written for
Windows on the Wine emulator on Linux?

Thanks in advance,
Alain

 

[philo]

Does anyone have any experience of using hardware with drivers written for
Windows on the Wine emulator on Linux?

Thanks in advance,
Alain

I've found that Wine will run most Windows apps ok (but not all)

as to drivers...the device must be installed in Linux

Wine does not perform driver emulation nor is that it's function


If you have hardware that not supported by Linux
you'd need to then run Windows in a virtual machine
or dual boot

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Does anyone have any experience of using hardware with drivers written for
Windows on the Wine emulator on Linux?

Thanks in advance,
Alain

As philo said, Wine is only an applications-level emulator, it doesn't
run device drivers.

You might be better off running a full virtualization software, like KVM
or VirtualBox, but even there it's doubtful whether your hardware will
be seen as they emulate their own standard hardware.

Yousuf Khan