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by avisser 3437 days ago
To be pedantic, VMWare is a virtual machine. It sure as hell doesn't emulate your x86 CPU.
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wtallis 3437 days ago
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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