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VMware vs Virtual PC vs Bochs

Posted by Hemos on from the battle-royale dept.

Sean writes "Possibly of great interest to developers as well as alternative OS users, this article compares three x86 emulators, VMWare, VirtualPC and Bochs. It looks like VMWare is better than the lot, but Bochs is shaping up nicely too."

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  1. Re:Comparison to original OS? by tkrotchko · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It doesn't emulate an OS, it emulates an x86 PC.

    It acts like a...well, a virtual PC.

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    You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
  2. Ahhhh.... Brings back memories.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Of my Amiga 3000 in 1990, with a 386 BridgeBoard and an Emplant card, with these two cards I was able to run PC software in a window on my Amiga Workbench, AND have a Macintosh running in its own screen behind the Workbench.

    Of course, we had to pirate the Mac roms to get the Emplant going. But it was a nice system.

    It's fun to be 12 years ahead of your time.

  3. bochs vs plex86 by larry+bagina · · Score: 2, Insightful

    moderate me down if I'm wrong, but hasn't bochs development slowed down in favor of plex86, which does virtualization instead of emulation? [although being fired from Madrake probably didn't encourage Kevin Lawton [?]].

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  4. Dual 533 MHz Celeron vs. Pentium 4 1.7 GHz by Schmendrick · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The author says "My PC is a lowly dual Celeron...", but a dual 533 MHz Celeron system is actually faster than a Pentium 4 1.7 GHz system for running VMWare !

    Because, on a dual CPU system, the native OS runs on one CPU and the virtualized OS (running inside VMWare) runs on the other CPU.

    I say this by experience because I tried the two configurations and was very surprised (even if the Pentium 4 had PC266 memory !).