Emulates a full Intel 486 CPU emulator. It can emulate both real and protected mode.

Emulate a basic PC with a VGA text-only display.

The developers of the Win4Lin virtualizer and related tools.

A 80186 PC emulator for the Windows CE operating system.

An open source emulator for all popular architectures and operating systems.

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

An open source alternative to VMWare.

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.

A graphical debugger interface for Bochs. Description, downloads, screenshots, a discussion forum and news about current releases.

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.

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

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, while letting bochs execute kernel code and IO functionality inside the emulator.

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

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.

A description of how Bochs is implemented internally (Work in progress).

Virtual x86 Computer for Macs, runs instead of Mac OS for better performance.

An open source emulator of the 8086-based IBM PC architecture, developed in C++. It is designed to recreate the experience of playing early IBM PC "bootable" games.

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

Alessandro Perilli's blog covering Microsoft, VMWare and related virtual machine products.

Allows to run "virtual personal computers" on a PC. Describes the product, availability and provides online-support.

A software emulator shows that the PowerPC can emulate another computer, down to its very hardware.

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

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

A virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with focus on performance and resource isolation. Describes architecture, documentation, changelog and downloads. [Open Source]

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, screenshots, downloads.

An IBM PC 5150 emulator. The emulation is complete enough to boot DOS and run most DOS applications. Description and Downloads.

This site blogs on x86 virtualization platforms and has a archive containing documentation and whitepaper links.

XenSource enables enterprise-grade virtualization and is the home of the open source Xen hypervisor project. Description, community, company.

Parallels virtual machine allows users to run multiple operating systems (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2 etc.) in independent virtual machines on a single physical computer. Products, support, download.

An online publication for news and information on virtualization technologies.