wine users - Sep 2011 - Is there Wine-like software for other guest platforms?

The wine concept--a compatibility layer that allows running executables compiled
for Windows on a Linux or Unix host--is a very useful concept that could
reasonably be used to adapt between other platforms.  It's somewhere between
running a virtual machine and cross-compiling the application.

Is there anything similar for other (non-Windows) guest platforms?

Right now, I'm specifically trying to run QNX4 software (Watcom compiler) on
Linux and/or Windows without using my virtual machine.  But I can see where this
would be a valuable capability for a variety of platforms.

On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 13:32 -0500, KenJackson wrote:
> Is there anything similar for other (non-Windows) guest platforms?
> 
OTT for this list, but... the OS9exec project allows applications
written for Microware's OS-9/68000 v2.4 operating system (aka OSK 2.4)
to be run under Linux and, since these binaries are written for the
Motorola 68xxx series of processors, it includes hardware emulation. I
have a 1992 vintage box (25 MHz 68020) running  OSK 2.4 and find that
os9exec running on an 855MHz P3 is very much faster than the same code
on its native hardware, though driving a green screen over a 9600 baud
link must slow it down too. os9exec works pretty well internally but
last time I used it there were issues with its screen handling.


Martin

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in the CPU. The raison d'?tre of this virtual tool is to tolerate you to run
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7. You should not use this if your intention is to test/debug programs and
poverty to protect your main grouping. Say: different opposite virtualization
solutions, this one does not seem to expect you to screw a unconnected Windows
XP pass.






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