On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:48:57AM -0800, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
>
>Wine emulates windows code.
>Plex86 virtualizes windows.
>
>The difference: instead of emulating each instruction, plex86 lets the
>windows program run natively, and interceps windows type calls. Supposedly
>it runs much faster, and is much easier and more portable to virtualizing
>other platforms than strict emulation.
>
>I also haven't been able to get it to run. They have little documentation,
>as it's still in CVS. I have compiled it, and they have a howto to get it
>to work with DOS. It supposedly works with a windows image, but again the
>docs are skimpy. In fact, there is a set of documentation, all in xml. If
>you want it in another format like text, there is a whole slew of programs
>that need to be installed so that their scripts will translate it into
>ps/html/text files!
>
>If anyone has had some success getting plex86 to boot windows, PLEASE POST!!
>
I haven't tried it yet; i'm still doing some fiddling with my Linux setup
on my laptop before attacking it. I will keep the list informed of my
progress, when it comes...
--
Keeping UUCP running is starting to seem a lot like keeping a 130-year-old
man who smokes 4 packs a day on life support because he's the last person
on Earth who knows how to do the cha-cha, but he won't tell anyone.
-- Ryan Tucker
