Re: bochs v. vmware
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 12:29:57PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 03:21:36AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:07:27PM -0700, nate wrote:
> > > some may even require use of vmware/bochs/etc to run ..
> >
> > Is bochs anywhere near as user-friendly as vmware yet?
>
> Nope, not by a long shot. Also, vmware is also lightening fast compared
> to bochs. Bochs is described as a PC emulator, while vmware is virtual
> machine software. I don't know the difference at a technical level.
> Perhaps somebody else can shed more light on it.
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.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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