On Thu, 27 May 2004, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Lately I've been following a project which might interest few people > here. It's called: QEMU > > QEMU is an open source "Virtual PC" emulator. Unlike BOCHS, it's quite > fast (a bit slower then VMWare, but not by much).. > > Although the project is in version 0.5.x stages (meaning - some > necessary features are missing), it shows a great promise.
i decided to try it out, and following your 'win98 installation on qemu' web page (worked ok, except that i had to use pre-compiled binaries, since qemu refused to compile on my redhat 7.3 system) i got a win98 system on a qemu "box". it works, albait a bit slow: > * If you plan to buy VMWare in the future, you might want to evaluate it > before sinking $300 per machine with vmware, if the guest OS is idle, vmware's CPU consumption is minimal. with qemu+win98se, qemu always uses all available CPU, even if the guest OS is not doing anything - i didn't yet check why. and as for speed - the reason i use win98 is to play civilization II. when ran on qemu limited to 128MB RAM (my PC has 256MB ram currently) - the game worked, but felt quite slagish (as if i was running a java application ;) ). note that this is not a 3d shooter real-time game, and uses a non-state-of-the-art graphics. the CPU, btw, is an AMD 2200+ (i.e. running at a 1.8MHz CPU frequency). i guess my dream of playing CivII without booting into windows has yet to come true ;) -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
