Why would anyone use WINE instead of VirtualBox?

Question

After my miserable experience of trying to get MS Office Pro to install and run under WINE (to give you some idea, I couldn't do anything more than open Access, trying to open / create a database made it crash, and numerous aspects of Excel would not work) .... I was utterly shocked at how easy it is to get ANY Windoze app to run under VirtualBox.

Moreover, WINE was a voracious CPU hog for me, but VirtualBox isn't.

I don't understand why the folks behind WINE don't just give up, VirtualBox seems to run rings around it.

Answer 1

WINE and VirtualBox are completely different systems. WINE is a compatibility layer, whereas VirtualBox creates a virtual machine in which the full Windows operating system runs.