Should be quite handy with Windows 7 coming at us at full speed. Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Images: Ever wondered what your new design looks like in Internet Explorer 6 running on Windows XP SP3? Don’t have that installed? No problem! Microsoft provides you with numerous images that let you see how things look in various versions of Internet Explorer running on Windows XP and Vista.
Due to the architecture of the program, DOSBox has been ported to many different operating systems including Windows, BeOS, Linux, Mac OS X and more. Virtual Machines For Running Microsoft Operating Systemsīoot Camp: Boot Camp is an included utility in the past few versions of Mac OS X that allows Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 inside of the Macintosh environment or to reboot the system into.ĭOSBox: DOSBox is built around running DOS games, but some people have had success with getting Windows 3.1 to run inside of it. The program is released under the GPL license. Xen: Xen runs on NetBSD, Linux and Solaris systems to emulate FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, Solaris, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server and more. Suffice it to say, if you have one OS, they probably have a solution for you to run another one on your system. VMWare: VMWare as a company is considered an industry leader in the system virtualization market, and as such the company makes so many different solutions for OS virtual machines that it would almost be impossible to list them all.
Virtual Machine Manager: Virt Manager, as it is more commonly known, is a virtual machine manager that allows you to run both local and remote virtual machines with multiple operating systems on your Red Hat Linux install. Guest operating systems include DOS, just about every flavor of Windows, Linux, Solaris, OpenSolaris, OpenBSD and more. It can run on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts. VirtualBox: VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization solution from Sun Microsystems that is free and open source. With Parallels Desktop you can run Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2, eComStation, MS-DOS and Solaris on your systems. Parallels Desktop: While Parallels is most associated with Macs, there is a version for Windows and Linux systems. While it is best known for its ability to run Windows, Parallels is also capable of supporting Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2 and more.
Parallels: Parallels is probably the best known virtual machine out there simply because it is one of the easiest to use, and got the most attention for it being the first Mac host to work with the Intel chips to bring Windows to the Apple systems. The guest operating systems are too numerous to list, but they includes all of the usual suspects including some off-the-wall entries like OS/2 and QNX. Virtual Machines For Running Multiple Operating Systemsīochs: Bochs is a handy virtual machine that can run on numerous systems down to ARM-based IPAQs.