Originally Posted by
The Minder
Wine can't keep up with all the changes to the poker site clients, HEM and Postgress so you're better off dumping it.
I run Ubuntu and have XP Sp2 in a Virtualbox guest. I DO NOT update Windows nor do I run anti-virus in the guest. The guest only runs poker site clients, HEM and an ODBC link to postgres on linux. I DO NOT operate a browser on the Guest. If by some miracle I do get a virus on the XP guest, I just wipe the guest and start again with no loss of data.
If you do not update XP beyond SP2 you don't get annoyed by that pesky 'licence activation' crap and can install as many XP guests as you want with the same key. You must get to SP2 however as I remember Roy saying you need to be running a certain version of the .NET framework for HEM to work and that .NET version requires SP2.
My 2c worth.