I agree that there is no sense in reinventing the wheel but Open Source/Free Software is all about choice. Don't rule out the possibility of completely rewriting a new application if the existing one isn't good enough and it a makes sense to write one from scratch.
I was talking to someone from KDE and asked why they created Konqueror when Mozilla was already there. He said they looked at the Mozilla Geko engine and thought they could write a better engine. These were the same guys who were the first (within 5 days) to get Mozilla working of the millions of lines of code being released as open source by Netscape.
Bochs is the slowest emulator that I have ever used! VMWare is atleast 200% faster and Win4Lin 300% faster.
So if someone looks at Bochs and thinks he can come up with a better architecture why not?
Regards Prakash
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 23:34, Amish Munshi wrote:
* Developing an open source tool like VM Ware that can run both Windows and Linux off the same CPUThere is one already existing called Bosch. Please dont try to reinvent the same program. It is already pretty advanced. Although I have never installed itmyself. All that one has to do is to impliment a solutions at some place and return the feedback to bosch developers. (This way you will be getting close to the technology and also contributing to the existing Free softwares).