* Kent West (westk@acu.edu) [031222 07:58]: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:05:30AM -0600, Kent West (westk@acu.edu) wrote: > >>Bochs (http://bochs.sourceforge.net/), but last time I checked (about a > >>year ago), it wasn't anywhere near as mature as VMWare (which works > >>great by the way, just a little sluggishly). > > > >Which are you saying is sluggish? VMWare or bochs? > > > >For VMWare, that's a fair statement. For bochs, it's grossly > >overstating performance, which tends to be somewhere between glacial and > >tectonic. > > > I intended the "sluggishly" to be applicable to VMWare, but now that you > mention it, I do recall bochs being horribly slow; I just assumed it was > because it didn't like my system. It's unfair to compare the two; they are vastly different projects. VMware is a resource-multiplexing virtualization system, whereas bochs is a machine emulator. It's kind of like how Wine Is Not an Emulator. bochs emulates the IA32 system in software on any hardware. VMware can't run macos, or any other non-ia32 OS, nor can it run at all on ppc, sparc, etc. since it doesn't emulate the architecture, it just virtualizes it. So even if they did port it to other architectures, it wouldn't do you that much good (i.e. how many "interesting" OSes are available on those platforms anyway?) good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.eff.org/ Defending freedom in the digital world
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