playing safely...

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

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.

-dsr-