On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 12:49, Froberg, David C wrote: > Thanks to all who have responded. > > Management saw a vendor presentation that included Wine and they go pretty > excited. > > For those who have used Bochs, is it fairly stable software? Also, I've got > a lpar on a z900 > I've been working on for a while. Is Bochs efficient enough to do real work > or would a few users bring it to its knees? > (I know, it depends on workload, config, etc., but I hope you catch my > drift).
You *really really* don't want to do this. Bochs burns a *whole lot* of your precious 390 cycles to emulate x86 cycles. This is expensive. If you have x86 software, then run it on a Linux/x86 box (where cycles are cheap) running Wine, if you want the stability and process isolation that Linux gives you but the convenience of Windows software. I ran it as a proof-of-concept only. Don't try this for real work. Adam
