Subject: plex86 working on NetBSD/i386
To: None <netbsd-announce@netbsd.org>
From: None <hubertf@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-announce
Date: 12/14/2000 03:42:51
* plex86 working on NetBSD/i386
The virtual x86 machine emulator 'plex86' now works on a
second Open Source operating system. So far plex86 did only
support Linux as host platform, and thanks to Frank van der
Linden of Wasabi Systems (http://www.wasabisystems.com/), it
now also works on the i386 port of the NetBSD multi-platform
operating system.
Tested operating systems include FreeDOS beta 4, MS-DOS 6.22,
Red Hat 6 Linux and NetBSD 1.5, stay tuned for more to come.
Instead of doing full CPU instruction emulation, Plex86 runs
native i386 code at full CPU speed, and only intercepts the
code for system calls into the host platform as well as
instructions that modify the machine state like trap or IO
operations. Simply speaking, it is an open source version
VMWare.
Plex86 is currently still in early stages, so speed and device
support are items that need improvement. However, they are
being worked on by its creator, Kevin Lawton.
The changes for NetBSD have been sent to him, and will
hopefully be integrated soon. If you want to try them out,
they can be found at
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/fvdl/plex86.tgz
To learn more about plex86, visit it's homepage:
http://www.plex86.org/
For more information about NetBSD, see:
http://www.NetBSD.org/
- Hubert Feyrer,
The NetBSD Project
--
NetBSD - because Unix isn't just #include <linux.h>, i386, ILP32, ELF, ...!