Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:10:11 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Win4Lin - yet another virtual machine to run Windows Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011272208220.46476-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <200011280356.eAS3ulF23058@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > I spoke to these folks at Linuxworld about 18 months ago. AFAIR, their > product is basically a port of SCO's DOS/Merge, and the ABI between the > userspace and kernelspace components is fairly well understood. > > The amount of work involved in making it run on FreeBSD would probably be > comparable to the work involved in the VMware port (ie. reasonable but > not excessive). Do you have any idea how easy it would be to get plex86 to run on FreeBSD? From what I saw on slashdot the other day, they now have Windows running under it. If so, a port would make lin4win vs vmware a moot discussion. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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