[linux-audio-user] Re: VMWare for Music

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 02:19 +0200, Alexandre DENIS wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> >VMWare obviously was not designed for serious audio use, why would you
> >expect it to work?
> >  
> >
> Neither is Wine.
> 

Wine, being open source, is designed to do whatever the developers want
it to, whereas VMWare is a commercial closed source product with a
different target market, so there's absolutely no incentive for them to
make the sound work any better than it does now.  There's at least a
chance of fixing the problem with Wine.

> VMware is the only working solution I found; not very fast, but working. 
> Other solutions don't start SONAR at all.
> 
> >Why can't you use Wine again?
> >  
> >
> I'm still using Rebirth and Cakewalk SONAR (lots of projects in .cwp 
> format). Neither of them will run in Wine.

Well, what do the Wine people say about it?    Did you submit a bug
report?

Lee