Today at 20:13, Elvis Presley wrote: > > I haven't been able to determine exactly what vmware does from their website, > too proprietary, too hush-hush, but I assume they write VxDs which map the > Linux kernel to the Windows VMM, and the real hardware. Someone once told me > their product ran on the NT platform, but not Windows 98, but it was quite > expensive. (All hearsay. No personal experience.)
Look at http://bochs.sf.net/, or at least do a better search of the web. This is not the list for such a discussion (whether Linux can or cannot be emulated on Windows). > It's fascinating technology, but you'd need inside information to make it work. > Google isn't enough. Given enough time, I'm sure these VxDs will appear out of > nowhere, as freeware or sharewhare or whatever it's called. Or you could go with Free Software[1] such as bochs running on a Free platform, such as GNU/Linux (though I believe it runs even on some proprietary platforms). It does the complete emulation of Intel architecture, and thus works even across incompatible architectures (it also makes it slower, but you can't have it all). No "VxD" is needed (and they're not so fascinating, it's just about dumping some code in kernel-level, and using VM86 features of Intel CPUs). [1] http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html > I should have said, "unicode text file support." Wordpad still does unicode, > but only in Word format, not as a text file, so I can still edit a document in > unicode, but I have to copy and paste it into a unicode editor to create a text > file. As far as I remember, "Notepad" on NT ("New Technology" ;) systems has been doing Unicode for text files as long as it exists (or at least since NT4, that's the first I saw it on), if we consider so-and-so UCS-2/UTF-16 support as "Unicode support". Cheers, Danilo -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
