Hey ther Paulsgnome.

I justify the price of VMWare to myself by comparing it with the cost of having to buy an extra computer. Compared with that it looks pretty convincing.

But for a similar package (ie a virtual machine, rather than an API mapper), only not at $189, there is the open-source http://bochs.sourceforge.net

I've managed to compile that one on Linux, MacOSX, Solaris and HP/HX so far, and its performance has been getting better and better since version 2.0. But if you want support for certain hardware on non-Intel hardware then you need to be prepared to hack the C around a bit. (I can give you a couple of hints if you are interested in this because I did so to get it going on Solaris for the ultrasparc and I took a page of notes at the time in case it needed to be done again)

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[This message has been edited by jooles (edited 05-27-2005).]