mmlr (Micheal Lotz), the current main porter of Bochs to BeOS, has sucessfully ported QEMU, a platform emulator with full or partial emulation of x86, x86_64, PowerPC, SPARC and MIPS computers. Wheter all of these platforms are supported in the BeOS port is not mentioned in the IsComputerOn news posting of the news, but Haiku is shown running inside the emulator.

QEMU is significantly faster than Bochs, and seems to have slightly better guest OS support. On Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, there is an accelerator module which inserts into the kernel to provide virtualisation for the majority of x86 commands. This means that, with a modern OS, the slowdown of running in the emulator is slim to none.