On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:23:27PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Not the difference between bochs & vmware: Bochs *emulates* a machine, > while vmware *virtualizes* it. That means bochs is several orders > of magnitude slower than vmware.
Indeed. > PS: Yes, I know vmware is non-free (both as in beer and as in speech) > and I don't like that either. I'm not complaining about that, because the inconvenience of non-free speaks for itself. Note that Vmware is not supported. Being non-free is just the reason of it not being supported by the Hurd developers. I can imagine they aren't willing to pay $300 for a non-free application just to get a fight with its closed source and specification attempting to run the Hurd on it. On Vmware's side, you can look at this URL: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/ws31_guestosa2.html it has a list of "Supported Guest Operating Systems", "Operating Systems that May Work but are Not Supported" and "Operating Systems that May Not Work and for which Support is Not Planned" The GNU OS appears in none of them. Neither does Debian GNU/Linux. Even some popular OSes like NetBSD, OpenBSD and Slackware GNU/Linux are listed as unsupported. (curiously the most unpopular OSes are all supported ;) If someone is interested on using GNU with Vmware, he/she should contact the Vmware staff asking for support first. cheers, -- Robert Millan "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5" Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
