On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 12:39:54PM +0530, Prem Setu wrote:
> Hi
>
> It is good idea to run ELKS on top of another Host OS for teaching or
> learning. (developing too).
> Student does not need to have 2 box. They don't need to reboot to switch OS.
> There are several products to have virtual 8086 PC.
> Host OS: Linux, Win., Mac
> Emulator: Vmware, Dosemu, Bochs
>
> Also if it is Dosemu or Bochs (?), you can use ELKS via telnet or X-window
> server.
> Dosemu seems very light. Some student can share the server for ELKS virtual
> machine.
> Each student can have his own virtual ELKS.
> Because you can use DosEmu via telnet, student's machine can be any stupid
> box :-)
> To build each evnironment for student can be very easy. Once you set up a
> sample, you can just copy to for each student's home directory.
> Because host OS is running Linux, you can build on it.
>
> Is it a good idea???
>
It sounds like a great idea. I myself use pcemu every now and again for testing ELKS,
but I don't rely on it too much as it is not as reliable a test platform
as a real machine. Some code will work fine in an emulator, but won't work
on real hardware as the 8086 has some strange behavoir in some circumstances.
I have also run ELKS in vmware, but I think that is quite an extreme solution.
vmware is very heavy.
Al
