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Kevin Lawton, currently employed by MandrakeSoft, is the creator and driving force behind Plex86, the Open Source X86 virtualization software which runs under Linux and now boots several operating systems, including QNX and Windows 98. This is a tricky endeavor, because (among other things), as the plex86 site states: "The x86 processor is not 'naturally' virtualizable. That is to say, it was not designed to run multiple operating systems concurrently." But with enough feints and jabs, Kevin and company have cajoled it into doing so anyhow. He's agreed to answer your questions about virtualization (and / or emulation -- he is the guy behind the also-Open Source bochs project to emulate X86 processors), so please post your stumpers below. Make sure to check out the Plex86 website first, and perhaps read other things about Plex86 on Slashdot. (And "What's the point?" is not a stumper.)We'll forward the top questions on to Kevin, and hear back from him soon.

nd writes "Kevin Lawton, author of the popular x86 emulator Bochs, has launched an open source project to create an application with functionality similar to that of VMware. Of course, he will need some help to get freemware (the title of this project) going. "

nd writes "Kevin Lawton, author of the popular x86 emulator Bochs, has launched an open source project to create an application with functionality similar to that of VMware. Of course, he will need some help to get freemware (the title of this project) going. "