System emulators, virtual machines and hypervisors: Difference between revisions

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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 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.

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

Hypervisors

System emulators

i86 system emulators

DOSBox

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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.		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 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.

	==Virtual machines==		==Virtual machines==