Re: Installing linux inside linux?
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 10:10:04 +0200, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> The primary issue is performance. Bochs is a hardware-in-software
> emulator. The useful feature is that you can run a virtual x86 box on
> any platform -- x86, MIPS, zSeries, whatever. The downside is it's
> slow. Really, really slow. An order of magnitude or more slower than a
> nonvirtual system.
Several orders of magnitude in my experience. I tried QBasic's demo game
"Nibbles" once, which worked fine on my i486 (50 MHz?), and probably even
on slower systems. Bochs on Duron750 can't even remotely cope with it :-)
> For a reasonable alternative (commercial/proprietary), consider VMWare.
> This is system virtualization, not emulation, It runs acceptably on
> 600MHz and better systems. An installation allows you to create as many
> virtual systems as you have disk storage for, and you can run several
> (generally 2-4) at a time, limited by memory.
Or try Bochs+Plex86. That's limited to i386, but it should be
significantly faster than pure Bochs. (vmware is probably still faster...)
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