Re: Free VMware?

From: Andy Baxter (news3_at_earthsong.null.free-online.co.uk)
Date: 10/12/03 

Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 23:41:58 +0100

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 23:20:41 +0100, Andy Baxter wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:01:57 -0700, Chris Carlen wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> I am unable to bring myself to shell out $299 for a personal license of
>> the VMware Workstation product just to be able to run $49 Win98se when
>> needed.
>>
>> I have the Express version which is old and not as smooth running as the
>> new versions, as well as not having USB and other goodies.
>>
>> I have heard there is some free virtual machine software for Linux, but
>> haven't been able to locate it.
>>
>> I have found plex86, but it only allows Linux guests. I need to run
>> Windows under Linux with as close to the smoothness of real VMware as
>> possible.
>>
>> Any hope?
>>
>>
>> Thanks for input.
>>
>> Good day!
>
> I've just been looking at bochs (bochs.sourceforge.net) It's a software
> emulator for 386-compatibles, which runs on various platforms. It does
> seem to work OK, and not too hard to set up, but it's terribly slow as far
> as I can see so far, just from running the win98 setup program.
>
> They say on their web page that they're working on moving some of the
> emulation to the native processor for the i386 platform, which is what
> vmware does. This would make it faster, but it's not ready yet.
>
> andy.

P.S. if you do try out bochs, I got stuck for a while before I realised
that you need to press the middle mouse button to get back control of your
mouse when you're running in an x window.

andy. 

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