Thanks for the info. I was aware of them, but a VM isn't what I meant.
WINE isn't a VM or an emulator: it "just" translates Win32 API calls to Linux ones. Getting that working has required implementing a load of DLLs and things, but it works surprisingly well now.
An environment to let Linux binaries launch on Plan 9 (or insert preferred derivative here: 9front, Harvey, Jehanne OS, whatever), akin to the Linuxulator in FreeBSD or the Linux Zone on Solaris, would make the OS much more usable.
I know what Wine does, for sure. Linuxemu and BSDemu did that, the same as Linux_compat on free/netbsd or Wine, but with vmx the former emulation it's obsolete.
WINE isn't a VM or an emulator: it "just" translates Win32 API calls to Linux ones. Getting that working has required implementing a load of DLLs and things, but it works surprisingly well now.
An environment to let Linux binaries launch on Plan 9 (or insert preferred derivative here: 9front, Harvey, Jehanne OS, whatever), akin to the Linuxulator in FreeBSD or the Linux Zone on Solaris, would make the OS much more usable.