on Wed, Sep 25, 2002, Leandro Guimar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Em Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:40:23 +0100, > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 12:29:57PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 03:21:36AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:07:27PM -0700, nate wrote: > > > > > some may even require use of vmware/bochs/etc to run .. > > > > > > > > Is bochs anywhere near as user-friendly as vmware yet? > > > > > > Bochs is described as a PC emulator, while vmware is virtual > > > machine software. I don't know the difference at a technical level. > > > > 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. See the above comments on machine emulation vs. virtualization. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Übersoft: Standing on the necks of giants. http://www.ubersoft.net/
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