Hi, this is an edit of a post i put on slashdot about VST under linux using vstserver and wine.

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As the title says, you can run VST plugins under linux using "Vstserver".
Of course it relies on wine.
The last version is 0.2.5 and so far i have been able to run flawlessly a big number of VST plugins . There is no added latency or speed performance issue.
The Vsti synths work as well, although with less success for the moment.
There are 2 ways to run VST plugins using Vstserver:
The audio app uses the libs provided and let the user to instanciate the plugins. At this moment only one application which is PureData (by Miller Puckette the inventor of the famous MAX) has a "native" object for vst.

The other way is to use "vst.so" which is a wrapper that allow Vst plugins to be seen as Ladspa plugins.
Ladspa is the own linux audio plugins standard.
This is very nice since there are already a lot of audio application that support ladspa.
For the moment there are some minor issues with the vst.so wrapper (albeit it works reasonnably well). Most of the ladspa hosts are not well suited to run the Vst GUI.

Here is a short list of FX that works here:
-Amplitube
-GRM volume 1/2
-Mda set
-TC electronics 3.0
-PSP (all of them)
-WarpVST (simu amps)
-Dynasone multiband compressor
-MasterVerb
-NaturalVerb(Steinberg)
-SilverSpikeVerb
-TC Native Reverb Master
-TLaudioEq1
-VintagePowerPack
-a lot of little freebies.

For the VSTi (some of them are still a little crashy)
-FreeAlpha
-TriangleII
-Kontakt (yes)
-Pentagon I
-Cheezemachine
-CrazyDiamon