Resources pertaining Intel x86 Architecture from our Emulators category

10801 - Computerworld community member Charles Bushong tests and compares Windows emulation packages for Linux and finds clear differences.

BFE - A graphical debugger interface for Bochs. Description

Bintrans - A dynamic binary translator that runs programs on architectures they were not compiled for. It does this by dynamically translating the machine code of the programs to be run to machine code for the native architecture. Documentation

Blue Label Power Emulator - PC emulator for Macs

Bochs IA-32 Emulator Project - An open source emulator for all popular architectures and operating systems.

Bochs-RFB - An addition to Bochs that connects to an emulated OS over a network using the RFB protcol used in VNC. Provides news about the application and lists available releases.

Bochs-Tools - A collection of scripts and programs to be used together with the Bochs-emulator. The main goal was to provide a Unix-like interface to the emulator and to enable access to Bochs disk-images from outside of Bochs.

Bochs-Win32 - A page providing some additional information about running bochs on Windows. Provides a registry-file to start bochs with double-click on the configuration-files.

BYTE.com - Building the Virtual PC - A software emulator shows that the PowerPC can emulate another computer

Digital FX!37 - Running 32-bit x86 Applications on Windows NT Alpha. A paper from the Usenix Windows NT Workshop.

Emu8086 - Basic 8086 emulator for Windows. Includes short tutorial and list of commands supported.

FreeOSZoo - Provides ready-to-run images of Qemu virtual computers

How Bochs works under the hood - A description of how Bochs is implemented internally (Work in progress).

L4Ka and Bochs - L4Ka is a new generation microkernel than runs on Pentium-level PCs or StrongARM. This site describes how to run it together with Bochs.

Legacy IBM PC Emulator - An open source emulator of the 8086-based IBM PC architecture

Paul's Weblog - Virtual PC 2004 - A how-to guide on Virtual PC 2004 from Microsoft. Covers setting up Linux and playing old DOS games.

Plex86 - An open source alternative to VMWare.

Plex86 x86 Virtual Machine Project - Simulates a x86 processor and can be used to run Linux as a guest. It also can be used to accelerate bochs by executing user code inside the plex86 VM

Serenity Virtual Station - Allows to run "virtual personal computers" on a PC. Describes the product

SkyEye Project - An Open Source Software Project. The goal is to provide an integrated simulation environment in Linux and Windows. Simulates typical Embedded Computer Systems. Download

Software-only 8086 PC emulator for X - Emulate a basic PC with a VGA text-only display.

Virtualization.info - Alessandro Perilli's blog covering Microsoft

vmTools - Produced by CodeArts. Virtualization Management Tools for Enterprise Application Center and Virtual DataCenter management. Products

Wabi Cpu Emulation - Describes the emulation defined by Sun Microsystems.

Win4Lin - NeTraverse - The developers of the Win4Lin virtualizer and related tools.

Xen virtual machine monitor - A virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with focus on performance and resource isolation. Describes architecture

XTCE PC - A 80186 PC emulator for the Windows CE operating system.