on Wed, Sep 25, 2002, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 That's incorrect; I think you're a couple of years out of date here.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.
I stand corrected.
Citations help. From the Plex86 information page:
http://www.plex86.org/info.phtml
What is Plex86?
The goal of the Plex86 project is to create an extensible open
source PC virtualization software program which will allow PC
and workstation users to run multiple operating systems
concurrently on the same machine.
Thanks, Colin.
Peace.
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