Emulation was Re: VMWare

Victor Odhner wrote:
>
> "J.Francois" wrote:
> > Has anyone tried Bochs?
>
> Not I. I notice that a Bochs installation of Windows,
> for example, will only run under Bochs. You can't
> use Bochs on an existing installation. They say
> that a Bochs environment uses a particular set of
> "hardware" in emulation, so it can't talk to a
> real Windows environment.
>
> My problem is reaching and using my existing
> Windows environment from Linux. I don't know if
> Win4lin allows this. Bochs doesn't. I don't
> know if VMWare does.

Yes it does. And it can do it with all changes committed
to the actual drive, or with the changes "cached" in
a file, and then either committed at the end of the
VMWare session or discarded, or left in the file.

George