Virtualization and Emulation

This software can be used to create a sandbox in which an acquired computer can be “run” without interfering with operation or data of curator’s computer.  It can also be used to run other software on this list on operating systems for which the software wasn’t specifically developed.

• CrossOver (CodeWeavers) - proprietary software that is based on and contributes back to the Wine development effort
  http://www.codeweavers.com/
• Digital Asset Preservation Tool (IBM) - "proof-of-concept" demonstration of the Universal Virtual Computer (UVC)
  http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/uvc
• Dioscuri: the modular emulator for digital preservation - x86 computer hardware emulator written in Java...designed by the digital preservation community to ensure documents and programs from the past can still be accessed in the future
  http://dioscuri.sourceforge.net/
• Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) - supports data virtualization (storage system independence), trust virtualization (administration independence), and management virtualization (policy independence)
  https://www.irods.org/
• JPC Project - Java emulation of an x86 PC and peripherals
  http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/jpc/ (JPC Interactive Demo at http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/jpc/Demo.html)
• KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine for Linux)
  http://kvm.sourceforge.net/
• Linux-VServer
  http://linux-vserver.org/Welcome_to_Linux-VServer.org
• OpenVZ - "container-based virtualization for Linux"
  http://openvz.org/
• ReactOS - "main goal of the ReactOS project is to provide an operating system which is binary compatible with Windows"
  http://www.reactos.org
• VIRT - Virtualisation (CASPAR) - appears to actually be a normalization tool for ingest, rather than a virtualization environment (Italian-English translation issue?)
  http://developers.casparpreserves.eu:8080/hudson/job/CASPAR-VIRT/
• VirtualBox (Sun)
  http://www.virtualbox.org/
• VMware Player
  http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
• Windows Virtual PC (Microsoft)
  http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/virtualpc/default.mspx
• Wine - open source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix
  http://www.winehq.org/
• Xen – hypervisor, which "supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows, Linux, Solaris, and various versions of the BSD operating systems"
  http://www.xen.org/