Hi
All,
Well
after about a week of going back to Windows and trying all the open source
software for windows that oyu kind people told me about, I have come to one
conclusion...Windows is shit, and open source software built on shit
unfortunately becomes shit by inheritance. My productivity has declined and
after rebooting 3 times *today* alone I have decided to go back to linux and try
this bochs emulator (wish I new about this earlier as I can't seem to justify
$300 for a vmware licence to my management..."why dont you just run
windows"??)
I
guess before I go ahead and install my 'pretty', I should ask how bochs runs
(most likely with win98 as the guest) and have you had any issues with it? I
tried getting it working on windows to attempt to run linux as the guest, but I
couldn't seem to get it to read the CD at boot time (error code 0003). Am I
likely to run into this problem again with installing windows as the
guest?
I have
a feeling that I will get in the shit if I format and reinstall again only to
find out that I can't get bochs to work running win98 and I dont then have
access to the various windows software, I installed windows for, to
run.
Thanks,
Adam.
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Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:24 PM
To: Andar Broment
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Subject: Re: [SLUG] Experience with emulators.
I'm amazed that people keep talking about vmware so much... :)
Especially when there is the bochs project for free... in addition to the plex86 project...
See http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ and http://plex86.sourceforge.net/
I use bochs to run MS Access for a uni project.
WINE is the way to go though, as it runs MS Windows applications very quickly, whilst running a virtual machine (eg bochs, plex86, vmware, etc) is very resource intensive (less so with plex86) and quite slow - probably frustrating when wanting to use an app like CorelDraw. (It can be hard to draw with jerky mouse movements.)
Not too mention that you must pay for vmware, in addition to paying for a MS Windows license.
Warmest regards
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