I also used it when I was messing with Linux From Scratch, so I could see how it worked before trying to install it on actual hardware. The only problem we had was that it absolutely refused to maintain the correct time. It served that purpose fairly well it was nice to be able to accidently fsck up your entire filesystem (no pun intended) without having to worry about losing your work. I took a class last fall that required us to do some fairly intrusive kernel hacking in Linux using VMWare. He's comparing three completely different products as if they were similar. Plex86 (formerly FreeMWare), founded by the lead developer of Bochs, would have been the Open Source analogy for VMWare, had its development not died off several months ago due to a terminal lack of developer interest. Bochs will never "shape up nicely" in the way that the article expects it to because it's a fundamentally different piece of software to VMWare. Whilst Bochs can mimic an Intel processor on any platform to which it's ported, VMWare depends on being able to pass machine code directly to the native CPU without interpreting it, and therefore its performace is pretty snappy.Īt least you can say appples and oranges are both round, but this 'review' takes the biscuit. On the other hand, VMWare is a virtual machine implementation. It includes emulation of the Intel x86ĬPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. From the bochs site:īochs is a highly portable free IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, Comparing their relative performances is simply nonsensical. As things stand now, you're pioneering to get any of them to run Solitaire under FreeBSD, and that just hurts too much to consider scratching.īochs and VMWare are completely different animals. The gorgeous thing about Wine is that, once you get it to run at all, you can start addressing things that don't work for you, and work in that area can benefit all the emulators. None of these emulators are at the point where I can start contributing anything useful. I did work on Wine way back when and I still like its idea, but portability really is a huge issue. It's just too slow, and plex86 is just too far out. As long as VMware sort of works under FreeBSD (yeah, I know, it's official and BSD is dying nothing to see here, please move on), I'm happy with it.īochs is pretty impressive in that it actually works and actually does useful things, but I wouldn't dream of using it for serious work as it stands now. VMware has the edge in that it actually is a useful environment if you have to occasionally use Windows, and need a bit of performance. Unfortunately, the quirks can be real show stoppers.
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