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The current version of VWware Workstation is 5.5. It is available for both Windows and Linux, and starts costs about 200 US dollars, see http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/pricing.html. The current version of VWware Workstation is 5.5. It is available for both Windows and Linux, and starts at about 200 US dollars, see http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/pricing.html.

["VMware"] is a commercial PC emulator running on i386 compatible cpus. It allows you to run any x86 compatible OS in a kind of 'sandbox' - inside the ["VMware"] virtual machine you can run other operating systems like Windows or some other version of Linux. Both Windows and a Linux versions are available.

The current version of VWware Workstation is 5.5. It is available for both Windows and Linux, and starts at about 200 US dollars, see http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/pricing.html.

A 'free as in beer' version called VMware Player is also availabe at http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

["VMWare"] is not a true emulator, it doesn't emulate a CPU like Bochs does, it wraps CPU commands around... It does emulate various hardware devices like network-, graphic- and soundcards. Plex86 (see below) also uses this technique.

There are several open source projects that have a similar aim:

Other emulators include:

  • ?DosBox

  • ?DosEmu

Related links:


(Maybe this page ought to have a more general title - "EmulationAndVirtualisation" or similar? - see also ["VMWare"])