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Bochs x86 IA-32 Emulator 2.1 Released

Posted by michael on Sunday February 1, 2004 @05:31PM from the curiously-useful dept.

Asmodeus writes "Just noticed that the 2.1 release of the Bochs IA-32 emulator is out at the Bochs home page For those not in the know, Bochs is an open source implementation of the x86 instruction set(s) and a virtual PC (al la VMWare) which is capable of booting FreeDOS and Linux under the host control of another OS."

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Re:Bochs is not like VMWare by BoneFlower · 2004-02-01 17:53 · Score: -1, Redundant

It does have some similarity- it does give you the capabilities of VMWare, at a significant performance cost anyways.