Obviously none of us know WHAT you're really trying to do, so this suggestion may or may not be workable for you, but in your situation my preferred solution is to set up a crap machine with XP as the native OS, and just use rdesktop to log in to it.
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Allie Daneman <d...@drainfade.com> wrote: > That's exactly my problem. I have to use this Linux POS to get the job done > and I feel bad about it. I've loved OpenBSD for years but it can't do what I > need in a PC for my daily driver....I'm pissed because I can't contribute to > helping the issue either so I should probably just shut up and do what I > need to do. Eh...it works for now...maybe it'll change in the future. > > johan beisser wrote: >> >> 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. > > -- Systems Programmer, Principal Electrical & Computer Engineering The University of Arizona ma...@arizona.edu
