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'''VMWare''' is basically the rich man's Virtualizer. It can run any number of "Guest Operating Systems" and can boot from real media or image files. It comes with a GUI that makes it easier to configure than [[Bochs]] or [[QEMU]].
'''VMware''' is basically the rich man's ''virtualizer''. It can run any number of "Guest Operating Systems" and can boot from real media or image files. It comes with a GUI that makes it easier to configure than [[Bochs]] or [[QEMU]].


Please note: VMware is not an emulator. There is lot of difference between an emulator and a virtual machine monitor. Emulators, like Bochs, emulate each instruction, whereas VMWare (and Virtual PC) try to run most of the code on the host PC directly, and only emulate instructions that create invalid instruction faults or access system-level memory.
Please note: VMware is not an emulator. There is lot of difference between an emulator and a virtual machine monitor. Emulators, like Bochs, emulate each instruction, whereas VMware (and Virtual PC) try to run most of the code on the host PC directly, and only emulate instructions that create invalid instruction faults or access system-level memory.


The VMware BIOS supports booting from a CD (use mkisofs to make a bootable CD, attach cdrom device to the .iso file) or a floppy drive (attach the floppy disk to a file), plus hard drives. These are the easiest options for loading your own kernel.
The VMware BIOS supports booting from a CD (use mkisofs to make a bootable CD, attach cdrom device to the .iso file) or a floppy drive (attach the floppy disk to a file), plus hard drives. These are the easiest options for loading your own kernel.
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* http://www.pagetable.com/?p=25 - A description of a problem encountered using VMware on AMD Opteron RevC processors.
* http://www.pagetable.com/?p=25 - A description of a problem encountered using VMware on AMD Opteron RevC processors.
* http://stackframe.blogspot.com/2007/04/debugging-linux-kernels-with.html - VMware engineer describes how to debug Linux kernel with debug stub.
* http://stackframe.blogspot.com/2007/04/debugging-linux-kernels-with.html - VMware engineer describes how to debug Linux kernel with debug stub.
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-vm-tools/ - Open source client tools. Good source for VMWare proprietary hardware and host/client hooks
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-vm-tools/ - Open source client tools. Good source for VMware proprietary hardware and host/client hooks
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