I've been informed that I was talking out of my hat, as I suspected. KQEMU (QEMU accelerator) is a Linux kernel module and, therefore, not an option for the OpenBSD. I'll put my hat back on my head now.
On 10/4/07, Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gerald Thornberry wrote: > > I've never used QEMU so I may be talking out my hat. Looking at the > > docs for it yesterday I remember seeing something about the QEMU > > accelerator. Is that an option here? > > > > "When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performances by > > executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. A host driver > > called the QEMU accelerator (also known as KQEMU) is needed in this > > case. The virtualizer mode requires that both the host and guest > > machine use x86 compatible processors." > > > > > > i've found qemu-0.8.2p4 on 4.1-release (i386) to be horribly slow and > some apps don't install correctly when emulating windows xp. it's ok for > viewing ms office documents but doing anything processor or disk > intensive takes an order of magnitude longer than usual. > > would be nice to know if the KQEMU driver is the bottleneck. > > cheers, > jake > > > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/about.html > > > > > > On 10/4/07, Frank Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Indeed, this is a FoxPro program. I had tried changing the path; and > >> tested it by starting program without using full path to EXE - although > >> the program does startup this way; it still fails at the same point. > >> > >> I also tried QEMU; but was still researching options before bringing > >> speed question here. I've read that it can be a bit slow; but I'm > >> wondering HOW slow? I use the FoxPro program to convert a database from > >> one format to another. Native Win98 on P3-600 the process takes 1:20 > >> (min:sec). On a 2GHz Core2Duo, QEMU takes 6:00 minutes. Is this > >> expected speed? On QEMU/BSD forum, it was suggested I compile from > >> source, so I used ports instead of package, but there was no change to > >> speed of this process. Files are currently inside a virtual disk. Is > >> that fastest for disk i/o? Am I likely to speed it up if I have files > >> on host and access them via samba? Is there another way to access host > >> files from Win98 guest? > >> > >> Frank > >> > >> > >> > >> Richard Toohey wrote: > >> > >>> I do not know much about wine, but the issue interested me ... I've > >>> built from ports and > >>> I am having a look. > >>> > >>> From the manual page, re. the wine configuration file, it has this: > >>> > >>> format: path = <directories separated by semi-colons> > >>> default: C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM > >>> Used to specify the path which will be used to find exe- > >>> cutables and .DLL's. > >>> > >>> Can you add C:\XXXX and/or C:\XXXX\LIBS to that list and see if it helps? > >>> > >>> A FLL looks like a FoxPro dynamic link library, so it should count as a > >>> DLL. > >>> > >>> Back to RTFMing ... > >>> > >>> On 3/10/2007, at 8:27 AM, Joachim Schipper wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 05:56:46PM -0400, Frank Bax wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> I installed wine-990225p0 from packages on 4.1 and can run simple > >>>>> programs > >>>>> like sol and notepad. I have an old program I'm trying to run; but this > >>>>> program cannot find it's own files unless the current working > >>>>> directory is > >>>>> set to the directory where software was installed. It seems more recent > >>>>> wine versions support 'bat' files which would solve this; but this > >>>>> doesn't > >>>>> seem to work in this version. > >>>>> > >>>>> When I try: > >>>>> wine c:/XXXX/program.exe > >>>>> the software complains that it cannot open LIBS\FOXTOOLS.FLL > >>>>> > >>>>> This file is found at C:\XXXX\LIBS\FOXTOOLS.FLL > >>>>> > >>>>> Is there a way to run something like this on wine 990225?: > >>>>> cd XXXX > >>>>> program.exe > >>>>> > >>>>> If this is not workable on 990225; do current wine versions work on > >>>>> OpenBSD? > >>>>> > >>>> I'm not sure if there is a way to 'cd' on OpenBSD's version of Wine. As > >>>> to porting: more recent Wines do weird things with threads, if I > >>>> understand the issue correctly. In short, don't expect an update soon. > >>>> > >>>> Qemu works fine, if you don't need to run a particularly demanding > >>>> program. > >>>> > >>>> Joachim > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> TFMotD: inet6 (4) - Internet protocol version 6 family > >>>> > > > > > > > --
