Got my feet wet - now getting cold feet.

[Garth Meisel]

On Sun February 22 2004 6:09 pm, Taavi Burns wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 04:24:42PM -0500, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> > <http://bochs.sourceforge.net/> Open Source IA32 emulator that allows one
> > to create virtual machines - similar in concept to VMware.
>
> It's actually much closer to VirtualPC running on Mac.  VMware is known as
> "virtualisation" software.  The OS and programs run natively on the x86
> CPU, and all access to hardware is intercepted and emulated.  VMware is
> more like WINE than bochs in that respect.
>
> Bochs is a full CPU emulator, with all instructions emulated in software.
> It is therefore very slow compared to VMware, but unlike VMware it runs
> on anything; x86, PPC, sparc, etc.

I'm glad you added that.  I didn't now the nice way of saying ONE of the 
things you mentioned which was "Slow."  IMHO, no matter what though, the end  
result is still Windoze and it isn't going to be any better or any more 
stable just because it's being babysat by *nix.  : )

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