Re: plex86, VMWare, & other emulators (was Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX)
Le dim 26/01/2003 à 04:55, Karsten M. Self a écrit :
> plex86 is an x86 hardware emulator. That is, it provides an x86 system,
> entirely within software. The primary advantage is that it's very
> portable. The primary disadvantage is that it's painfully slow.
>
> VMWare by contrast is a hardware virtualization. It virtualizes the
> underlying HW. This provides an extensive performance boost, but at the
> cost of portability (even were the source available).
I'm affraid you have mixed plex86 and bochs. bochs is an x86 hardware
emulator. plex86 is an x86 hardware virtualizer.
Xav
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