On Sunday 18 December 2005 11:37, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > But people should be aware of the considerable speed penalty when running > any program under/inside an emulator. Use of the kqemu kernel module is > said to improve matters, but its installation is far from simple.
It's not that hard to install. I agree on the speed penalty thing, that's why I only mentioned the DOS partition -- most DOS programs that I can think of would run at an acceptable speed in an emulator. > It is claimed [1] that it's possible to run many operating sytsems inside > the qemu emulation. That said, I wonder what people have managed in > practice? > > Specifically, has anybody got either XP-Home or XP-Pro to run, however > slowly? Yeah, I have. XP Pro runs fine, not as fast as 98 but basically usable. Although I don't use it. > [1] http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ossupport.html hads -- Stalin holds the world record for erecting the most statues to himself.
