playing safely...

[christian.ampenberger at comcast.net (Chris Ampenberger)]

On Saturday 03 January 2004 14:44, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:02:56PM -0500, Chris Ampenberger wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 January 2004 12:05, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> > >    From: "D.E. Chadbourne" <235u at comcast.net>
> > >    Date: 03 Jan 2004 12:04:48 -0500
> > >
> > >    > Use vmware or blochs to set up virtual environments. Treat the
> > >    > machine running the virtuals as though it were a hostile Internet
> > >    > source, and firewall it off from the rest of your network.
> > >
> > > It's actually bochs, not blochs.
> >
> > I tried bochs on my XP 2800+ with Gentoo and is far too slow. The last
> > week, I used the Win4Lin eval, which is quite good, but limited to the
> > Win 9x (95, 98, Me) versions. With $89 it fits much better in my hobby
> > budget, than vmware.
>
> Bochs is slow, yes. It has to be: it's a complete emulation of hardware,
> not just virtualization of software.
>
> plex86 is the virtualizer-only -- try that if you need more speed.
>
I gave up on that, since whatever documentation I could find about plex86, was 
useless.
> -dsr-