Quoting Hadley Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:33, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > How well does it work running XP[Pro]?
> 
> After taking a look in my qemu directory I discovered that I have 98,
> 2000 and 
> XP images in there (I had forgotten). The only one I use semi-regularly
> is 98 
> to test websites in IE, because it is by far the quickest to boot up.
> 
> For me, 98 is the quickest of them all even though 2000 is meant to be
> faster, 
> this could be due to the fact that my only copy of 2000 is Server and it
> 
> probably has a bucket load of services starting that don't need to be.
> 
> XP and 2000 are much the same speed.

So they should be.  NT 5.0 and NT 5.1
> 
> This is running them all with the kqemu module, -m 256, and on an
> Athalon XP 
> 2500 with 512 RAM.
> 
> A couple of other things that are useful (excuse my if these were
> covered in 
> the talk, I'm too far away to make it)

I never got around to covering those, I'm sorry.
> 
> 1. using overlay images to protect your original installation - this is
> 
> mentioned on the arch wiki page previously posted.
> 
> 2. using the savevm command from the monitor (CTRL-ALT-2) and then using
> the 
> -loadvm switch from the command line for almost instant on.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> hads
> 
> -- 
>  You are the children of a dead planet, earthdeirdre, and
>  this death we do not comprehend. We shall take you in, but
>  may we ask this question--will we too catch the planetdeath
>  disease?
>  
>  -- Lady Deirdre Skye,
>  "Conversations with Planet"
>  
(OT - Where is this sig from?  It sounds like it might be from that midnineties
SF series that ended after one season. :-)

Thanks

Wesley Parish

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