[ale] Emulator vs. Virtual Machine

[Pete Hardie]

Jeff Layton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   Could someone help me with a 'discussion' I'm having.
> This other person is claiming that VMWare is an emulator
> and as a result is really slow. I'm claiming that VMWare
> is a Virtural machine and it's pretty darn quick. This other
> person also says there is little difference between emulators
> and virtual machine, at least as far as VMWare is concerned.
> Would someone like to jump to help me (or the other person)?

It doesn't matter - it's completely possible to have an emulator that is only 
slightly slower than the real hardware, and also possible to have acrappy 
emulator that makes a 1.4GHz P4 look like a C-64.



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