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== Comments from [[User:Mmestnik]] ==
Below are the comments from [[User:Mmestnik]] which he incorporated in the article. I have reverted the edit, and put those comments here for the discussion. --[[User:Kir|Kir]] 12:43, 11 August 2006 (EDT)
<i><nowiki>:)</nowiki> You changed topics in mid-paragraph. These emulators are used to create virtual machines, [http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ DosBOX] and [http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ Bochs]. Virtual Machine Emulators are able to run x86 code and OSs on a wide variaty of computer hardware, I.E. ppc/sparc/alpha.
:I should also mention [http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ Qemu] in here some where, but it will only run programs compiled for other CPUs under the same OS I.E. x86 [http://www.winehq.org Wine] on ppc used to run x86 windows propgrams under OSx or Linux.
The others you mention use cpu virtualization, Rather, guest code is executed as-is in a safe VM environment managed by a VM monitor. Guest kernel code is executed at a less priviliged level, causing privileged operations to generate exceptions which are managed by the VM monitor. Like the abovementioned VMware and [http://plex86.sourceforge.net/ Plex86]. Unlike bochs and dosbox, instructions are not translated(emulation) into native code. This means that vmware and plex can only run x86 OSs on x86 hardware. :)</i>
Below are the comments from [[User:Mmestnik]] which he incorporated in the article. I have reverted the edit, and put those comments here for the discussion. --[[User:Kir|Kir]] 12:43, 11 August 2006 (EDT)
<i><nowiki>:)</nowiki> You changed topics in mid-paragraph. These emulators are used to create virtual machines, [http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ DosBOX] and [http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ Bochs]. Virtual Machine Emulators are able to run x86 code and OSs on a wide variaty of computer hardware, I.E. ppc/sparc/alpha.
:I should also mention [http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ Qemu] in here some where, but it will only run programs compiled for other CPUs under the same OS I.E. x86 [http://www.winehq.org Wine] on ppc used to run x86 windows propgrams under OSx or Linux.
The others you mention use cpu virtualization, Rather, guest code is executed as-is in a safe VM environment managed by a VM monitor. Guest kernel code is executed at a less priviliged level, causing privileged operations to generate exceptions which are managed by the VM monitor. Like the abovementioned VMware and [http://plex86.sourceforge.net/ Plex86]. Unlike bochs and dosbox, instructions are not translated(emulation) into native code. This means that vmware and plex can only run x86 OSs on x86 hardware. :)</i>
