From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 17 20: 6:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from charleston.softhome.net (charleston.SoftHome.net [204.144.231.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF55514D6C for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:06:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bradley@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 30784 invoked by uid 417); 18 Mar 1999 04:26:35 -0000 Received: from max1-ppp-8.cyberix.com (HELO BillyJoeBob) (207.106.53.187) by smtp.softhome.net with SMTP; 18 Mar 1999 04:26:35 -0000 From: "Brad Benson" To: "Gianmarco Giovannelli" Cc: Subject: RE: VMware Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:04:57 -0500 Message-ID: <000001be70f4$7c655760$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-reply-to: <4.1.19990318153114.00995c30@194.184.65.4> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > > >VMware is a tool for using multiple OSes simultaneously. Right now they > >have versions for linux and soon fot NT. > > Ooops, typo .. I wanted to write bochs :-) > In ports/emulators tree > From the way things sound VMware has much higher functionality compared to Bochs. Bochs will emulate an Intel 386 based computer, but has no support for com ports, networks, sound, and direct access to the filesystem. I've used bochs and in it's current form it's good for little more than an interesting and slow toy. It does however show great promise. The VMware product sounds more like a complete and useable package. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message