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Questions tagged [emulation]

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How Wine is not an emulator?

As I understand emulators (in a simple way), they do translate or substitute the function calls of a program using functions of system X into functions used by system Y in which the program is being run onto. Wine project claims that Wine Is Not an…
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Does installing and using Wine open up your Linux platform to Windows viruses?

Just wondering if installing Wine might open up a fairly solid Linux desktop to the world of Windows viruses. Any confirmed reports about that? Would you then install a Windows antivirus product under Wine?
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Is the MMU (Memory Management Unit) chip necessary for a processor to have virtual memory support?

Is the MMU (Memory Management Unit) chip necessary for a processor to have virtual memory support? Is it possible to emulate MMU functionality in software? (I am aware that it will probably have a big impact on performance).
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How to run programs in a Sandbox?

I have been using PlayOnLinux to run windows programs on Linux. PlayOnLinux creates a virtual drive for each program installed and every VD represents a different Windows XP computer. Any changes made by the program stay within its own VD only. So…
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Is there a way to emulate HCI (Bluetooth) device on linux?

I'm working with a Bluetooth LE device in my project and I want to test bluetooth-related host code without having an actual Bluetooth device. Currently, I have a Linux machine with BT dongle as a host and BTLE sensor. On Linux machine I'm running a…
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alternatives to wine

Is there some alternative to Wine ( the windows "emulator" ) which is more stable and more likely to work with my Windows games?
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8086 emulator for unix-like OSs?

Is there any 8086 emulator (free or paid) for Fedora 17? I am learning assembly language using AT&T style.
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How to emulate the NeWS window system

Is there a reasonably easy way to run NeWS (Network-extensible Window System, a PostScript-based window system made by researchers at Sun in the 1980s) on current computers?
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Ways to run old programs made for IRIX on MIPS?

I have a small collection of old, custom programs for IRIX on SGI MIPS, some of which I need to run for work related reasons because there are no modern alternatives available and we need to access them for legacy stuff in the back room. I'm just…
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How can I simulate USB storage device connection with qemu?

I'm writing a program for controlling USB storage device connections (this is a classic subject). All it's ok with my program, but now, I want to write some tests. So in order to do that, I realized I'll need some way of simulate USB connections.…
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How I can emulate a big endian platform on a x86?

I need to get a big endian platform to develop with gcc and g++, what is a solution for that? I know that the SPARC is one of those big endian architectures, but I have no idea what OSs can run on it and how to emulate a SPARC machine under Linux; I…
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How do you play this old unix game?

I recently tried the simh emulator, pdp11. The disk image I used can be found on the internet, and instructions for booting it are here. Presumably it belonged to Dennis Ritchie, as the username is "dmr". In the /usr/games folder are about 20 games…
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Cross-arch Docker container will stop emulation

I'm trying to build a portable cross-arch Docker container using QEMU. However, depending on the host system and the programs installed on the host the container behaves differently. Running the container on Windows, the emulation works fine. It…
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Behavior of QEMU as hypervisor

According to official QEMU documentation: When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performance by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. My question is how is this behavior different from the programs we call hypervisors…
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Box86 can't find some specific libraries

I am trying to run some programs on an Ubuntu ARM64 machine with Box86 (in this case, Steam). While starting up it crashes, and I noticed in the console the following errors: Error loading needed lib libgailutil.so.18 Error loading one of needed…
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