How to run Samsung Android Kies software on Wine ?

I've a Samsung Galaxy mini with Android 2.2. Kies, the software provided by Samsung to manage my phone, doesn't run on linux,. I've tried to run it on wine, but it doesn't work at all.

Is there any way i can get this running on wine?

Yeah it's a major pain in the arse (speaking as somebody who has tried everything). Wine doesn't work reliably with things that need hardware connections. If you're trying to upgrade your phone's firmware, it's just plain not worth the risk.

VirtualBox (with Windows installed within, and the USB plugin installed) would normally be a viable option but for some reason VBox really hates my Galaxy S2. If you can get this to work, that's great.

For upgrading firmware I turned to Heimdall. This is essentially an open source replacement for Samsung's Odin tool (that isn't officially available to the public). I had success with this but I'm not sure it supports your phone.

Failing that, borrow a friends Windows laptop and install Keis. I tried this after VirtualBox failed but Samsung's 64bit drivers are awful. Plain wouldn't work. I think they've updated them since but it was too late for me. If you have easy access to a proper install of Windows you should probably try this first.

I got Kies to work on my new Galaxy Note N7000 (still Gingerbread) with my Dell Dimension using Ubuntu 12.04 using Chromium, but only one way ie using the desktop as master and GN as slave, not the reverse. Deactivated data function on the mobile, connected the USB cable. The phone searched for linked devices and then displayed a network address, which I entered in the desktop browser address line. The browser loaded Kies which gave access to the mobile SD card for upload and download.

My destop is an older model and doesnt have wifi capability. seems to work OK although access.) It's not full desktop-mobile integration or syncing, but it's better than nothing and simpler than transferring single files with Bluetooth.

Wine refused to install the Kies executable on the desktop and complained that the package was faulty.