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hulitu ◴[15 Jul 25 19:06 UTC] No.44574716[source]▶

>>44550722 (OP) #

> VMware Workstation: Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture (2012) [pdf]

Before vmware, was Win4Linux.

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tonyedgecombe ◴[15 Jul 25 19:12 UTC] No.44574773[source]▶

>>44574716 #

>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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1. p_l ◴[16 Jul 25 13:27 UTC] No.44582098[source]▶

>>44574773 #

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.

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