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1. hulitu ◴[] No.44574716[source]
> VMware Workstation: Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture (2012) [pdf]

Before vmware, was Win4Linux.

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2. tonyedgecombe ◴[] No.44574773[source]
>Before vmware, was Win4Linux.

VMWare Workstation was released in 1999, Win4Lin in 2000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Workstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win4Lin

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3. p_l ◴[] No.44582098[source]
Win4Lin was apparently based on Merge, which debuted in 1985. However, at least with Win4Lin, it depended IIRC on specially patching the windows components to run them in the hypervisor.