On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 10:10:04 +0200, Karsten M. Self wrote: > The primary issue is performance. Bochs is a hardware-in-software > emulator. The useful feature is that you can run a virtual x86 box on > any platform -- x86, MIPS, zSeries, whatever. The downside is it's > slow. Really, really slow. An order of magnitude or more slower than a > nonvirtual system.
Several orders of magnitude in my experience. I tried QBasic's demo game "Nibbles" once, which worked fine on my i486 (50 MHz?), and probably even on slower systems. Bochs on Duron750 can't even remotely cope with it :-) > For a reasonable alternative (commercial/proprietary), consider VMWare. > This is system virtualization, not emulation, It runs acceptably on > 600MHz and better systems. An installation allows you to create as many > virtual systems as you have disk storage for, and you can run several > (generally 2-4) at a time, limited by memory. Or try Bochs+Plex86. That's limited to i386, but it should be significantly faster than pure Bochs. (vmware is probably still faster...) -- Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into Sebastian | your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
