Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:31:36 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Win4Lin - yet another virtual machine to run Windows Message-ID: <200011280431.eAS4VaF23169@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:10:11 CST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011272208220.46476-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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> > 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.
It's unlikely that plex86 will make VMware or Trelos' product "moot
discussions" anytime soon; Bochs/Freemware/Plex86 is a credible start,
but would have a great deal of ground to cover before getting to that
point.
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