APC: VMware for Linux Jul 3, 1999, 14 :42 UTC (12 Talkback[s]) (7686 reads) (Other stories by Ashton Mills)
"We rarely make blanket statements at APC, but VMware is a very
impressive product."
"VMware is a PC emulator for the PC. It creates a virtual PC on your
desktop that acts and behaves as a complete virtual machine, right down to
being able to enter the BIOS and change its settings. There have been PC
emulators in the past, particularly on the Linux platform, but they were
always slow and, more importantly, buggy. It's easy to understand why.
Programming a virtual PC is no easy task. You have to completely create all
the resources a program or operating system expects to see, while keeping
on good terms with the operating system on which the emulator is running.
This is much harder than it sounds, which is why some virtual PC emulators
have been under development for years and still haven't been successful.
"For these reasons, VMware is impressive. It's the first to succeed, and
it's not only rock solid in stability, it's also fast."
