On 16 Apr 2010, at 17:40, Patrick Kelly wrote:
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Rodolfo (kix)
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 2:20 AM
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Subject: Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install
I am agreed with Federico,
vmware. Do not spend time with other emulators.
The only emulator you're spending time on is Qemu, the rest are
virtualizers or simulators, and there is a significant difference.
Emulators are much slower, because of what they have to do.
Qemu is capable of full emulation, but when host & guest architecture
match (or are compatible, e.g. x86_32 guest and x86_64 host) it's a
virtualizer. Given x86 on x86, there is a world of difference between
Bochs's performance and Qemu's.
Qemu's display is slow, whatever other factors exist. Drawterm to a
qemu cpu server is very much faster. I can't speak for disk IO except
to say it seems fast under my light usage.
Also, to nit-pick, don't all virtualisers emulate peripheral hardware?
El 15 de abr de 2010, 9:02 p.m., "Federico G. Benavento" <[email protected]
> escribió:
vmware, the rest just suck, qemu and virtual box being
the slowest
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Joel C. Salomon <[email protected]
> wrote: > My computer died...
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Federico G. Benavento
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis
