vmware has anyone tryed

[Franzisca]

With wine you can expect 20-30% of native windows performance, FFXIV has always been running terrible with it. Don't believe what people rate it at winehq.org, they play at lowest settings, low resolution whereas the same hardware would run the game at max settings on windows.

If you want native performance on Linux via Virtualisation use XEN direct hardware passthrough but you need 2 graphic cards for that:

http://phoronix.com/forums/showthrea...-the-way-to-go!!!

http://gro.solexiv.de/2012/08/pci-passthrough-howto/

Its complicated to get it running properly but performance is superior to wine or vmware's non-existing 3D capabilities.

Good luck