[wplug] Alternatives to vmware

[beer]

There is also qemu.  I have only tooled around with it, but some of my colleagues use it pretty frequently.  None of them think its dazzling, but they said its worth playing with.

-bill

> "Michael P. O'Connor" <mpop at mikeoconnor.net> wrote:
> 
>> I was wondering if there are any good free alternatives to vmware?  it 
>> would have to just be able to run a copy of linux under linux.
> 
> In addition to David's answers:
> 
> Bochs is a program almost on par with VMWare.  It's OSS.  The two biggest
>  problemw with Bochs are that is dreadfully slow and the setup is pretty 
> involved.  However, it does neat stuff like let you simulate IA64
> hardware on an IA32 box, which VMWare can't do: 
> http://bochs.sourceforge.net
> 
> -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com 
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