On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:37:11 +1300 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:57, Barry wrote: > 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? > > [1] http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ossupport.html > > -- > CS Slightly irrelevant, and maybe not true to qemu ( but I use vmware a lot for testing ), the resources allocated to each imaage are private, and this means that you need a *lot* of memory if you want to run any number of images concurrently. I find that 3 + host vmware images on a 3GHz P4 with 2GB memory is ok, but after that it's the swapping that slows everything down. If this is not true for qemu, then I need to invest a lot more time(1) in it! Cheers, Steve. (1) If I had any I'd not be working on a Sunday, would I!
