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> VMware Workstation: Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture (2012) [pdf] Before vmware, was Win4Linux.
by hulitu 1y ago
> VMware Workstation: Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture (2012) [pdf]
Before vmware, was Win4Linux.
- tonyedgecombe 1y ago>Before vmware, was Win4Linux. VMWare Workstation was released in 1999, Win4Lin in 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Workstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Workstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win4Lin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win4Lin
- p_l 1y agoWin4Lin was apparently based on Merge, which debuted in 1985. However, at least with Win4Lin, it depended IIRC on specially patching the windows components to run them in the hypervisor.