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Operating System Tools

Notes To add files to your new archive, click Add, which opens a browser window that you can
navigate to find the file or directory to add to the archive. Click Add when you are finished, and
click Archive => Close to close the archive.

6.2.4 Emulators

There are many different emulators for numerous platforms. The emulators that simulate
8-bit home computers such as Sinclair ZX Spectrum are considered as one of the most common
emulators. Emulators are obtainable for simulating complex operating systems, for example,
MS Windows.

Some of the emulators are discussed below.

VMWare

This application is considered as an enterprise class virtual machine. It is capable of running
numerous versions of an operating system on a single computer. For instance, numerous versions
of Windows operating system can be executed on a single Linux machine.

Example: We have shown below an example which shows Windows XP running under
VMWare on a Linux box. This is shown in Figure 6.4.

Figure 6.4: The VMWare Application

Wine

An application implementing the Windows API on top of native X window system is known
as Wine. The native X window system is utilized by the graphical environments of KDE and
GNOME.

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