playing safely...

[cdevers at pobox.com (Chris Devers)]

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:

> Bochs is slow, yes. It has to be: it's a complete emulation of hardware,
> not just virtualization of software.

But isn't VMware also a hardware emulator? I thought that the two of them
were doing roughly the same thing, but VMware has a reputation for being
far snappier than Bochs.

I know that Wine isn't an emulator -- hence the "wine is not an emulator"
expansion of the name -- which is why it's faster but bound to x86
hardware. Bochs on the other hand does emulate the hardware, but now that
I think about it I don't remember whether VMware does or not...

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Chris Devers