On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 13:04 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > have you tried it? I see it is in portage. > > hint you need softmmu in your USE variable. > > I'll report after lunch. > > On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 12:13 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > Greets, > > > > Folks who are interested in this thread may also be interested to read > > about > > another Free emulator which has been released. > > > > http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/52/QEMU_System_Emulation.pdf > > > > Take care, it's 334 kB but well worth the read imho. > >
ok so the article is about 1/3 the size of the qemu source :-) I downloaded, compiled and installed qemu, it took damn all time, its about 1M of source. hint for gentoo users set the softmmu USE flag: USE=softmmu emerge --ask qemu I then tried it out with qemu -cdrom KNOPPIX_V3.7-2004-12-08-EN.iso The emulation appears to be pretty complete, but r-a-t-h-e-r s-l-o-w. I also have vmware-workstation which is light years faster. If I understand correctly qemu is an emulator, whereas vmware is a hardware virtualiser. The distinction is better explained by wikipedia than I can do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware Of course qemu can emulate arm, ppc and sparc on x86 hardware, so for some things an emulator can be useful. Maybe a chance to see a ppc distro working, or test something specific on another architecture. There is a distinct price differential too :-) On my Athlon 1133 with 512M RAM first impressions show that there is a not enough grunt to make this system very usable. Allocating 256 M RAM instead of the default 128M doesn't seem to change much. My system is getting a bit old now (Anyone wanna contribute to a contract on that fella Moore?). I'd be interested to know how someone with a 3G p4 with heaps of RAM copes. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
