Hi, I would like to correct you on this. Bochs is a simulator. There is a difference between a simulator and an emulator. Emulator is something like VMWare. Bochs is a classic simulator which simulates x86 via software. It does not directly use the hardware.
An emulator uses hardware when ever possible. For e.g. a clock tick interrupt from the underlying hardware will be caught by VMWare code and shown as a clock tick interrupt to the guest operating system. However Bochs will do the same via the use of granular timers through the code. Hence, a simulator will always run slower than an emulator. If you notice, one major difference between a simulator and emulator is also the fact that an emulator always ends up installing a device driver on your system. A simulator never does this. For detailed info follow this: http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/virtualization/ > who asks for a "simulator" (rather than "emulator") > and needs > to "practice" linux would better try to use a > railroad tie __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
