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

[Alexandre DENIS]

ix at replic.net wrote:

> > Well, what do the Wine people say about it? Did you submit a bug
> > report?
>
>  certain things just arent implemented in WINE, or cause frequent app
>  freezes.

More precisely, Wine is always one step behind. When Cakewalk needed NT4 
emulation, Wine was good at running old win95 versions of Cakewalk; now 
that SONAR requires XP, Wine can hardly run old NT4 versions.

Running SONAR with Wine has been discussed many times on winhq and even 
on the Cakewalk forum. No luck, they are doing native Windows software 
and are not willing to do any effort to help SONAR run with Wine.

>  but we should be looking at why one would
>  want to use SONAR anyways

I have used a dual-boot system for a long time: Windows for audio, Linux 
for anything else. Now, I want to switch to Linux even for audio, but 
I'm still in a transitional phase. I have been a Cakewalk user for 15 
years since my old Cakewalk Apprentice, and thus I have accumulated a 
lot of audio work in Cakewalk format (not readable in any Linux 
software), with tracks using the Cakewalk Direct X plugins (Direct X, 
not VST, so no jack_fst or whatever).

I know that using proprietary software sucks --that's why I am migrating 
to Linux even for audio-- but the transition is not as easy as I wanted. 
Using VMware is the only solution that actually works among my numerous 
tests. The second most promising solution is Qemu. Maybe I should try 
harder with Qemu instead of VMware.

-a.