-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
Can you see something wrong with my posts? I haven't recieved my own post back but I am recieving every other mail on the list, and you've cc'd your reply to me for some reason (and I have recieved 2 copies of it). I only subscribed yesterday and this was my first post so I may be missing something... On Thursday 16 January 2003 12:35, Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote: > > Check out Bochs; bochs.sourceforge.net > > It's a GPL'd project that's similar to vmware, but is architecture- > > neutral. So you can run it on things other than x86. On the con side > > that means it doesn't use the x86 virtual machine hardware thingy > > (or whatever the techincal term is...) so it's much slower than > > vmware. But being a GPL project, it has many more features than > > vmware - builtin gdb support so you can debug your kernel if you > > want to, amd-64 emulation, stuff like that. > > I really don't think that what Michael wants. Bochs is SLOWER then pentium > 100Mhz! (it emulates everything - including the processor!) Well, he did say he didn't need performance as such and that he'd have used vmware if it wasn't so expensive. And boch's speed is a function of your host computer, obviously. It is good for some purposes, in some situations. Perhaps not in his. But I used it to play with different distros at one point and it was tolerable (barely). The new 2.0 tree is supposed to be fast enough to run windows apps tolerably (once it's started up anyway). > > > There's also a project called plex86 somewhere. I'm not familiar > > with it except to say that it does use the x86-on-x86 virtual > > machine mode, so it's comparable in speed to vmware, but may be less > > mature than bochs. Check out both. > > Plex86 is officially dead more than a year ago. Mandrake stopped paying the > developer, so he stopped working on it (although he is merging some plex86 > code to bochs these days). I looked it up, http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/plex86/ and it looked revived. I only glanced at it though. Now I've looked at it more throughly and realized you're right, all the activity there was support & the porting to bochs that you mentioned. http://mail.nongnu.org/archive/html/plex86-devel/2002-12/msg00016.html looks promising on the speed frontier, now :-) - -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Jo+2UI2RQ41fiVERAkUcAJ47pbKwKlfR5fbPZpQq2LlQvNaV2gCfV4Zx syDxfoCe/cYyu+CvRGUYnqE= =0ld/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
