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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:10:11 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Win4Lin - yet another virtual machine to run Windows 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011272208220.46476-100000@achilles.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <200011280356.eAS3ulF23058@mass.osd.bsdi.com>

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On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Mike Smith wrote:

> 
> I spoke to these folks at Linuxworld about 18 months ago.  AFAIR, their 
> product is basically a port of SCO's DOS/Merge, and the ABI between the 
> userspace and kernelspace components is fairly well understood.  
> 
> The amount of work involved in making it run on FreeBSD would probably be 
> comparable to the work involved in the VMware port (ie. reasonable but 
> not excessive).

Do you have any idea how easy it would be to get plex86 to run on
FreeBSD?  From what I saw on slashdot the other day, they now have Windows
running under it.  If so, a port would make lin4win vs vmware a moot
discussion.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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