Emulation was Re: VMWare

[George Toft]

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