Yes, I know it, and I note it in my mail when I talk about the (im)possibility of running it on PowerPC chips. I was only comparing its uses: the same as you can use Basilisk to run System 7 on a G5, you can use VMWare to run NT 4 or Windows 3.1 on a "new world" PC which would otherwise be incompatible with it (neither Win 3.1 or NT 4 are compatible with USB devices, Serial ATA hard drives or 5.1 soundcards, which are frequent on modern PCs).
The main difference is that so long as it's not competing with another CPU-intensive program (say, another VMware instance) you can get pretty near full native speed execution (especially when the OS you're running is hypervisor-friendly and can cooperate with VMware... alas, Windows isn't). That's a pretty major difference from the kind of hardware emulators Mac users are more familiar with.
Other environments like this, albeit with more support from the client OS are Sheepshaver (OS 8 under BeOS), MOL (Mac on Linux), and Blue Box (and maybe Classic, though it provides so much cooperation with the host OS it's somewhere between VMware and Wine). The only one of these I have used is Sheepshaver, and it was actually faster in some ways than OS 8 on bare metal.
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