Linked by Roberto Dohnert on Mon 23rd Jun 2003 02:31 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes If you have a mixed network like I do sometimes you have to compromise. At my job we run Windows, Linux and a sole Mac (Graphics dept.) and lets face it, when you do consulting work and if you design and develop custom applications you have to be able to develop for your clients platform and as much as I hate it, it's a Windows world. Before I used to have 2 workstations, one Windows and one Linux, or I had to dual boot. In the past, virtual machines have been lacking. Either they were too slow or lacking a certain pizazz to get the job done. Enter VMWare Workstation 4.
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by Mark G on Mon 23rd Jun 2003 15:57 UTC

I stopped reading the moment I realised that is was being written by someone with very little understanding of how it worked. You cannot compare VMWare to Bochs. 1 is a virtual machine, the other is a true emulator. Boch emulates the i386 and can be run on a mac or anything else that's not PC. VMWare can only be run on PC.. They are totally different, and this is why the perfoamcnce gaps exists...