Oh, and there's Xen: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/
I have no experience with either to share with you, so hopefully some other Tri-LUG'ers can chip in. I have OTOH, used VMWare quite extensively in the past, and can offer the following observations, which might or might not be relevant to Bochs or Xen:
1. virtualization takes a LOT of memory. If you do nothing else, load the machine you want to work with down with RAM, if possible.
2. it's somewhat CPU intensive as well. Use the fastest CPU you have available / can afford / can overclock too / can beg, borrow, steal, etc.
3. Otherwise, it works pretty well. We used VMWare running on Windows, with Linux as the guest OS, and used RPC to communicate between a process running under Windows, and a Linux process, and it worked quite well (for the most part, and what problems we had didn't really have anything to do with VMWare, per-se).
TTYL,
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