Re: bochs v. vmware
Em Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:40:23 +0100,
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> escreveu:
> 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?
> >
> > Bochs is described as a PC emulator, while vmware is virtual
> > machine software. I don't know the difference at a technical level.
>
> 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.
The free software equivalent of VMWare would be Plex86.
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