As Nick said qemu is damn slow , but then again it is basically a fork of bochs with a few extras added to aid initial setup and configuration.
Cheers Dale. On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 14:02 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > 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. > > >
