On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:10:51AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Sep 25, 2002, Leandro Guimar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Em Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:40:23 +0100, > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > > Bochs emulates individual machine instructions in software. VMware lets > > > the processor handle those as normal, but traps accesses to hardware > > > devices and emulates just those in software. > > > > The free software equivalent of VMWare would be Plex86. > > No, last I recall, that's the FS equivalent of bochs, which is source > distributed, but not free.
That's incorrect; I think you're a couple of years out of date here. Bochs is LGPLed and is an emulator, Plex86 is a virtualizer. Google should confirm this. Note that bochs is in Debian main. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
