> Check out Bochs; bochs.sourceforge.net 
> It's a GPL'd project that's similar to vmware, but is architecture-
> neutral. So you can run it on things other than x86. On the con side 
> that means it doesn't use the x86 virtual machine hardware thingy 
> (or whatever the techincal term is...) so it's much slower than 
> vmware. But being a GPL project, it has many more features than 
> vmware - builtin gdb support so you can debug your kernel if you 
> want to, amd-64 emulation, stuff like that.

I really don't think that what Michael wants. Bochs is SLOWER then pentium
100Mhz! (it emulates everything - including the processor!)
 
> There's also a project called plex86 somewhere. I'm not familiar 
> with it except to say that it does use the x86-on-x86 virtual 
> machine mode, so it's comparable in speed to vmware, but may be less 
> mature than bochs. Check out both.

Plex86 is officially dead more than a year ago. Mandrake stopped paying the
developer, so he stopped working on it (although he is merging some plex86
code to bochs these days).

Thanks,
Hetz

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