Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] wine, cubase etc.
From: Benno Senoner (sbenno_AT_gardena.net)
Date: pe joulu 03 1999 - 12:54:21 EST
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, J Digital wrote:
> I used wine quite some years ago, and didnt have much luck getting anything
> beyond simple win 3.11 apps to run. but im seriously looking at getting
> vmware up and running, as i think it will really run nicely on my dual
> processor machine. check out details on www.vmware.com
>
> josh
>
>
I'm sorry to disappoint you,
but vmware is not able to deliver accurate timing, since it runs the whole
virtual machine as an user process.
I tested N.I. Reaktor on vmware on my PII400 + 256MB while my box
was todally *idle* on the linux side.
Very choppy sound even with very large buffersizes.
winamp behaves in similar fashion.
I would not run a MIDI sequencer on a virtual machine.
On the other hand wine seems much more promising, since
there are no virtual machine emulation techniques, but only API
call translations which run on the native linux box.
But Cubase, Logic etc are so complex beasts, and often
use dirty tricks (irq reprogrramming etc.)to achieve better timing
stability/latency that I have little hopes to get these beasts
running on wine someday.
One advantage of unix is that it forbids to userspace apps
to perform dirty tricks, and that unix apps are almost hackfree
(irq stuff etc) by default.
Benno.
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