None of these emulators are at the point where I can start contributing anything useful. I did work on Wine way back when and I still like its idea, but portability really is a huge issue. It's just too slow, and plex86 is just too far out. As long as VMware sort of works under FreeBSD (yeah, I know, it's official and BSD is dying nothing to see here, please move on), I'm happy with it.īochs is pretty impressive in that it actually works and actually does useful things, but I wouldn't dream of using it for serious work as it stands now. VMware has the edge in that it actually is a useful environment if you have to occasionally use Windows, and need a bit of performance.

Unfortunately, the quirks can be real show stoppers.