On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Allie Daneman wrote:
I need to run Java on the guest...hence the reason Qemu doesn't work
for me. T need virtualization software that runs java on an XP
guest. The version of OpenBSD doesn't matter ;) I've been running it
since 2.8 and am running current today as a server....which is what
I want to change. Look, do you know how to run virtualization
software like virtualbox or to have qemu do what I need (run java in
an XP guest) ? If you can't, then let's let others answer my question.
My initial thought is that you're screwed. Virtualization is
expensive, difficult, and just never going to be all that quick under
OpenBSD. At least until someone really does horrible things to the
OpenBSD kernel to make that work.
Sure, you could do:
OpenBSD -> kQemu -> WinXP -> JVM -> jApp.
But wouldn't:
OpenBSD -> JVM -> jApp be faster?
Depending on the app, there's a variety of reasons for wanting the XP
VM. I get that. It's also just not going to perform all that well.
Pretty much to the point of utter failure or uselessness.