Looking inside the Bochs hardware emulator

[Warren Togami]

Looking inside the Bochs hardware emulator
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/02/26/151230&mode=thread

"Most people in the Open Source community are aware of VMware, a commercial
product which allows you to run a guest operating system on your Linux or
Windows system. Some people are aware of Plex86, an Open Source project
which is working to accomplish a similar goal. But not that many people seem
cognizant of an older project: Bochs."

"Unlike VMware, Bochs (pronounced "box") does Pentium machine hardware
emulation. This makes performance under Bochs much slower than that of
VMware. But because Bochs emulates the hardware, it can be used on other
hardware architectures like Alpha and SPARC. So you can run Windows 95 on
your SPARC box, or FreeDOS on your Alpha. For example, one of the
accompanying screen shots is an x86 Linux booting on my SPARCstation 10. My
SPARC box is too slow to make things really usable, but a faster CPU could
make it possible to run x86 applications on a non-x86 architecture."