Wine and VMWare do not compete with each other. One emulates the WinAPI, the other emulates the intel hardware platform. One is good for some things, the other for other things. They really can't be compared. Bochs seems to compete with VMWare, not with wine Regards Anders On Monday 04 June 2001 12:59, Clayton Cornell wrote:
On Monday 04 June 2001 12:18, Geoff Bagley wrote:
I have two machines, both Pentiums.
One runs dual boot SuSE 7.1 and Win98. The other just Win98.
I have to keep at least one machine working with W98 because I have three Windows and two DOS applications I wish to keep.
If I had Bochs, would this enable me to run windows and DOS progs on the LINUX box ?
I have never tried emulators before. Any other LINUX newbies running Bochs yet ? Does Bochs compete with vmware etc. ?
Regards
Another Windows/MSDOS emulator you could take a look at is Wine. It works for most of your basic MS based applications. It is quite easy to setup - has a handy graphical interface for configuring - and works quite well most of the time. It tends to fail on high end stuff like games and some custom (non-standard) applications. It's a good idea to download and install the latest version of Wine... I found that the version shipped with SuSE7.1 would crash a lot. the new version available at http://www.winehq.com/ is much more stable.
Honestly I like Wine (haven't tried Bochs yet, but I do plan on trying it out soon) much better than VMWare. VMWare starts a virtual machine in a window. This has it's advantages such as in a commercial environment where a robust emulator is critical. In Wine, each application runs like/similar to an X app. Also.... Wine is free for distribution under the terms of it's license... VMWare is quite expensive to purchase.
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