playing safely...

[nmeyers at javalinux.net (nmeyers at javalinux.net)]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:59:37PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> I know that Wine isn't an emulator -- hence the "wine is not an emulator"
> expansion of the name -- which is why it's faster but bound to x86
> hardware. Bochs on the other hand does emulate the hardware, but now that
> I think about it I don't remember whether VMware does or not...

It doesn't emulate the CPU - you can only run VMWare on x86-ish boxes.
What it does emulate is a standard set of hardware (such as disk drives
and peripheral cards) sufficient to support modern x86-based OSes.

Nathan