Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: >On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 01:32:21PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > >>But the accelerator is not open source. Had it been, you'd hear a >>totally different line of reasoning from me. >> >> > >Not only that, but it's X86 only. That kind of makes it less than worthwhile, >after all do you really need an X86 emulator that only runs on X86 processors? > > Me.
Of course it only runs on X86. The whole point of the accelerator is to bypass the need to emulate the CPU by using the real one. That's why VMware is not as slow as Qemu (mainly). >Emails to the author inquiring about the possibilty of using it on other >architechtures went unanswered. Even when they included the posibillity >of future money. > > One thing I learned fairly early on was never to trust future money. Personally, I'm in the business of providing support in exchange for money. I'm not in the business of providing venture captial, or venture anything. Maybe he had the same idea. Then again, maybe he just didn't feel like answering something that obviously had no potential for him (being as it is that the accelerator is non-portable). >That's the rub. There rarely is a follow through. One of the problems >with transgaming's efforts is that they really only improved WINE for >very high end hardware and mostly for 3d acceleration. > > No. The problem with Transgaming was that they tried to play the game on both ends - everyone else will contribute their effort for free, while they will keep their development to themselves. That plan caused a change of license for the whole of Wine. >>On the other hand, VMWare emulates 100% standard hardware. My software >>is not adapted to it in any way (the reason I'm using VMWare and not >>Xen), and there is no trace in the standard usage of my usage of it. In >>other words - it's a convinence tool with no lock-in. >> >> > >Yes, but at some point the cost, overhead, and quirks make it cheaper >and easier to just have a Windows machine. It depends upon how much and >how often you need it. > > Like I said before, if all you want is to run Windows on your Linux, there may be better solutions than VMWare. That's not what I'm doing, though, and another machine is an *inferior* solution to a software emulator in my case, regardless of how much the extra machine costs. >Geoff. > > Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html ================================================================= 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]
