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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:
- Bochs
- Packages: bochs
- Accurate (but quite slow) PC emulation
- Can run on any platform, while ["VMWare"] and Plex86 only run on x86 ["PCs"]
- ["qemu"]
- Package: qemu
- Less accurate emulation that bochs, but faster. Uses dynamic binary translation to support different architectures.
- ["FAUmachine"]
- Plex86
- Xen
- Focuses on performance and virtual machine seperation
- Works by modifying the host operating system so that subsequent guest operating systems will run faster
- May one day support Microsoft Windows as a guest OS (After a blessing from Microsoft which may never come)
In Unstable and Testing, see http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/xen
Other emulators include:
Related links:
- Cooperative Linux
- Linux port that runs cooperatively alongside another operating system. Requires patch to the host OS.
- User Mode Linux
- Package: user-mode-linux
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(Maybe this page ought to have a more general title - "EmulationAndVirtualisation" or similar? - see also ["VMWare"])