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Comparison of platform virtualization software

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Basic general information about the virtual machine packages: creator, guest systems supported, license, etc.

Name Creator Host Processor Guest Processor Host OS Officially supported guest OS Supported guest OS drivers? Method of operation License
Bochs ? x86, x86_64, Sparc, PowerPC, Alpha, MIPS x86, x86_64 Windows, Linux, OS X, IRIX, AIX, BeOS DOS, Windows, xBSD, Linux ? Emulation LGPL
PearPC ? x86, x86_64 PowerPC Windows, Linux OS X, Darwin, Linux ? Emulation and Dynamic Translation GPL
QEMU Fabrice Bellard x86, x86_64, ia64, PowerPC, Alpha, Sparc32 & 64, ARM, S390, m68k x86, x86_64, ARM, Sparc 32 and 64, PowerPC Windows, Linux, OS X Changes regularly [1] ? Dynamic Recompilation GPL/LGPL
SVISTA 2004 Serenity Systems International Intel x86 Intel x86 Windows, OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD ? ? ? Proprietary
VirtualPC 2004 Microsoft Intel x86 Intel x86 Windows DOS, Windows, OS/2 Yes Dynamic Recompilation Proprietary
VirtualPC 7 for Mac Connectix PowerPC Intel x86 OS X Windows, OS/2, Linux Yes Dynamic Recompilation Proprietary
VMWare Workstation 4.x Vmware Intel x86 Intel x86 Windows, Linux DOS, Windows, Linux, xBSD, Netware, Solaris Yes Dynamic Recompilation Proprietary
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