Issues trying to install vcrun2008 using Wine

[syika]

I am running a 32 bit Centos 5.4 Amazon EC2 instance. I am trying to install vcrun2008 and dotnet20 using wine and i am experiencing some kernel problems.

These are the steps I am following:-

1) Install Wine - this is successful - version 1.0.1
2)Get winetricks
$ mkdir ~/bin/ && cd ~/bin/
$ wget winetricks
$ chmod 744 ~/bin/winetricks
3) Set OS to Winxp
$winetricks winxp - this is successful
4) Install corefonts
$ winetricks corefonts - this is successful
5) Attemp installation of vcrun2008
$ winetricks vcrun2008

I get the following:-

winetricks vcrun2008
Renamed drive_c to harddiskvolume0
Executing wget -O vcredist_x86.exe -nd -c --read-timeout=300 --retry-connrefused --header Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
vcredist_x86.exe
--2010-03-22 16:52:43-- vcredist_x86.exe]

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4485976 (4.3M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `vcredist_x86.exe'

100%[======================================>] 4,485,976 4.52M/s in 0.9s

2010-03-22 16:52:44 (4.52 MB/s) - `vcredist_x86.exe' saved [4485976/4485976]

Executing wine /home/sirungu/.winetrickscache/vcrun2008-ms09-035/vcredist_x86.exe
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.

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Note: command 'wine /home/sirungu/.winetrickscache/vcrun2008-ms09-035/vcredist_x86.exe' returned status 1. Aborting.
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$ Mar 22 16:53:24 ip-10-212-74-223 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Mar 22 16:53:24 ip-10-212-74-223 kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1]
Mar 22 16:53:24 ip-10-212-74-223 kernel: SMP
Mar 22 16:53:24 ip-10-212-74-223 kernel: CPU: 0
Mar 22 16:53:24 ip-10-212-74-223 kernel: EIP: 0061:[<c10254df>] Not tainted VLI
Mar 22 16:53:24 ip-10-212-74-223 kernel: EFLAGS: 00210087 (2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen #1)
Mar 22 16:53:24 ip-10-212-74-223 kernel: EIP is at release_task+0x38/0x2f1
Mar 22 16:53:24 ip-10-212-74-223 kernel: eax: c12ff000 ebx: c1981290 ecx: f5416000 edx: 00000000
Mar 22 16:53:24 ip-10-212-74-223 kernel: esi: c1981290 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000001 esp: ed3ade68

After this my instance hangs and i have to reboot it.

What am i doing wrong?

[syika]

Any help someone?

[Rubberman]

Myself for this stuff I prefer to run real Windows in a virtual machine. It eliminates a LOT of problems. I do run a number of applications and utilities with Wine, including my Sparx Enterprise Architect UML modeling tool. However, a lot of applications simply don't work well without too much pain and suffering.