Author: Joshua Shriver
Date: 12:56:30 03/25/04
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My basis for comparison was really bochs which does emulate the x86 chipset. Keep in mind it was designed for portability, so it emulates x86 on any system including x86. So it's a real emulator not a VM. I've never tried Win4lin, is it a commercial or free package? As for VMWare I haven't had the chance or $$ to try it out either. So I'm very glad to see that it has interoperability between the VM's that are running. :) I'd like to try VMWare just so I can run FreeBSD/Linux at the same time :) Or if you can redirect ports, would be nice to use 1 VM'd environment as a honeypot on the network, but that's a different topic all together. Thanks for the info though :) Joshua Shriver >Well you seem to be quite misinformed. > >The Windows emulators for Linux are almost as fast as a real Windows box, and >offer many ways to exchange files and networking capabilities. > >Win4lin runs a Windows almost AS FAST as a real box. It can use the native Linux >file system. It offers network sharing (if your Linux is connected to a network, >Win4lin is also, automatically). > >VMware runs Windows slightly slower than Win4lin, but it is still very fast (did >you think that the x86 instructions where interpreted or what?). It offers >network sharing to access the Linux filesystem or any external network. It's >very good. I can run simultaneously a Windows 98 and a Windows XP on my Linux >box! I can test my applications for several versions of Windows on a single >computer without rebooting! > >So to sum it up, I recommend Win4Lin and VMware. I would not recommend Wine, or >just for a few applications (most of the stuff I have tried with Wine did not >work). I do not know about Bochs, but I have heard that it does a complete >hardware emulation, and that is supposed to be indeed very slow. But it can >emulate a PC on a Mac! > > > > Christophe >
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