I have no affiliation with VMWare in any business sense of the word. The reply to seems to automagically reply to this list -- my apologies for not doing more hunting for a private email address.
I have used and do use the VMWare product, including in beta, and have obtained user licenses from them under the provisions of their various programs. I do not have VMWare source. I have been in contact with Kevin over the years, as well as others attempting to develop an environment in which to run MS garbage native (given that various "filters" and "translators" available for open systems, including StarOffice and Applixware, do not translate with perfect accuracy all files created by the MS applications suite), and have thus far found only two viable solutions: For IA-32 Linux, VMWare; for Sun Sparc Solaris2, the current Sun PCI IA-32 co-processor. Both require a MS garbage license under the VM platform. I have found no other solutions that run MS garbage (the technical jargon I use to describe the functionality and environment provided by Microsoft and the Microsoft applications suite) with execution times suitable for real-world use. Sun gave up on WABI, Wine is only an approximation (in large measure because MS garbage is a deliberately moving target due to the monopolistic MS marketing and cash-flow model), and emulation (rather than VM or IA-32 coprocessors) becomes too slow for the current MS garbage bloat. If there is strong interest in the community, and we could get the existing VM (not VMWare -- Virtual Machine) software appropriately licensed, I can probably involve a few CS graduate students to develop a Plex86 like solution under GPL as a graduate OS project. Yasha Karant > > Are you in any way affiliated with VMWare? If you say "no" but you are then > it's libel. Please send your reply directly to me because I don't think the > list wants to listen to this. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dr. Yasha Karant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 9:41 PM > Subject: Re: [plex86] bochs 1.3 --> plex86? > >
