System emulators, virtual machines and hypervisors
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Emulators and virtual machines can be a highly useful tool for developers. Virtual machines (VM's) allow you to run a PC operating system inside your operating systems, this can be can be useful for emulation purposes i.e. you can run Microsoft Windows or FreeBSD for instance on a VM and thus get the use of development (and other) software for that platform, or you can run another version of OS/2 for compatibility testing purposes. But it can also offer you a level of abstraction by allowing you to run different versions and setups of the same version of OS/2 for different purposes including debug versions and so on.
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Virtual machines
Native OS/2 virtual machines
- SVISTA
- Connectix Virtual PC
- VirtualBox
Virtual machines for other operating systems that offer OS/2 support
- Microsoft Virtual PC
- Parallels Workstation
- VirtualBox