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'''VMWare''' is basically the rich man's Bochs. It can run any number of "Guest Operating Systems" and can boot from real media or image files. It is also a lot easier to configure than bochs. Website is at http://www.vmware.com/.
'''VMWare''' is basically the rich man's Bochs. It can run any number of "Guest Operating Systems" and can boot from real media or image files. It is also a lot easier to configure than bochs.


Unfortunately, VMWare is not designed to help the hobbyist discover his or her own faults. There's virtually no debugging info except for obscure error codes that can be forwarded to vmware.com ... so it's rather like having a second "real" box instead of the debugging sandbox Bochs provides.
Unfortunately, VMWare is not designed to help the hobbyist discover his or her own faults. There's virtually no debugging info except for obscure error codes that can be forwarded to vmware.com ... so it's rather like having a second "real" box instead of the debugging sandbox Bochs provides.
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==See Also==
==See Also==
===External Links===
===External Links===
* http://www.vmware.com/ - VMWare homepage
* http://www.pagetable.com/?p=25 - A description of a problem encountered using VMware on an AMD64 processor.
* http://www.pagetable.com/?p=25 - A description of a problem encountered using VMware on an AMD64 processor.