Marti Martinez wrote:
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.
Not an option...see I work in a unique situation. I need a laptop
running XP that I can use to VPN into work for email,etc. I also need XP
running on the local LAN for access to local boxes that require the
windows java based client. Beyond that I use the host OS to access non
windows required apps on the local LAN. Right now Ubuntu does that for
me and I run 2 instances of XP on the host OS, I've tried almost every
flavor in existence and I keep coming back to Ubuntu because it does the
best job. There's plenty of room for improvement with Ubuntu
though....little quirky issues and upgrades are a joke, I just wipe it
every 6 months. This is the reason I'd love to come back to
OpenBSD...less quirkiness, it does what I want, and I fell way better
running it than something that does weird things under the hood.
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.
