Re: feedback wanted alternative Debian installation system
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:10:32PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > There is already plex86 in Debian which does the same as
> > VMware. And besides that the most important thing is that plex86 is
> > free.
>
> Thanks for pointing that out. I'm afraid I'm not too familiar with how
> useful plex86 (formerly known as Bochs, right?) is yet.
Well, yes and no. plex86 has pieces of bochs inside it; but
it's different.
Bochs is an emulator. You can drop it on a Mac, and run i386
binaries on it.
plex86 is a virtualiser. It wraps around binaries, and tricks
them into thinking that they're actually running on a machine. The code
is all executed on the processor; but any special calls are intercepted.
Simon
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