On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:57:45PM -0800, pedro noticioso wrote: > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It's not a general solution yet, but the first fully > > open source PC BIOS > > code has just booted Win 2K. Not an emulator or > > virtual machine. > > > > > http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/Projects/sebos/phase2.shtml > > This is great, will they publish an open source > package for it? Id love the idea of no longer needing > to pay vmware for a bsd installation in my PC 8)
There exists two Free Software projects that does what vmware do: plex86 and bochs. The URI above is about a linux BIOS. You seem to want an emulator. There are packages for both plex86 and bochs in Debian, and probably in other distros as well. plex86 is for the ix86 arch only, while bochs can run on other hardware. plex86 is faster than bochs. For windows applications, I would rather choose crossover office or win4lin, than going for the full virtual machine thing. while plex86 and bochs are free in terms of licences and money, they are probably rather costly when it comes to CPU cycles... But don't take my word for it, I haven't tested any of them. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key: 1024D/7050614E Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E Key available at wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Encrypted emails prefered.
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