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 "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
