Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Aug 07 18:35 -0500]: Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]: However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD. That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the impossible ones

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-08 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. The emulators I tried are DOSEMU + Freedos, BOCHS + MSDOS 6.22, and QEMU + MSDOS

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-08 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]: However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD. That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the impossible ones possbile. This

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Aug 07 18:35 -0500]: Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]: However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD. That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the impossible ones possbile. This is not an

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. [snip] Did you run kqemu with qemu? No, I couldn't get

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Tom Grove wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. The emulators I tried are DOSEMU + Freedos, BOCHS + MSDOS 6.22,

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-07 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Mike. Mike McCarty, 07.08.2007 09:22: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. [snip] Did

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-07 Thread Aenn Seidhe Priest
There's a Live CD based on Mandriva which has Virtualbox built-in. RAM requirements are bound to be very hefty, but 1 GB should be enough. http://mcnlive.org (Virtual City build). On 07.08.2007 at 2:22 Mike McCarty wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Mike. [about kqemu] No, I couldn't get it to build for me. How did you try? More than the following commands is not necessary: I downloaded the source and used the recommended commands. # apt-get install module-assistant # m-a prepare # m-a a-i kqemu #

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Aenn Seidhe Priest wrote: There's a Live CD based on Mandriva which has Virtualbox built-in. RAM requirements are bound to be very hefty, but 1 GB should be enough. $ head /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 248088 kB MemFree: 2916 kB Buffers: 9240 kB Cached: 51432 kB

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Mike. Mike McCarty, 07.08.2007 09:22: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]: However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD. That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the impossible ones possbile. - Nate -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | Successfully Microsoft Amateur radio

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]: However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD. That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the impossible ones possbile. This is not an issue with the distro, it's a defect in the original

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-07 Thread Nate Duehr
On Aug 7, 2007, at 5:32 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]: However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD. That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the impossible ones possbile. This is not an issue with

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-05 Thread B.Hoffmann
I would like to see how VirtualBox stands up against the others. It seems to be the fastest emulator when it comes to Windows. Although this is only one person's opinion and there is no scientific evidence it just feels faster. -Tom VB runs great here. I'm virtualizing Arch, Fedora

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-05 Thread Joe Hart
On Sunday 05 August 2007 16:23:12 B.Hoffmann wrote: I would like to see how VirtualBox stands up against the others. It seems to be the fastest emulator when it comes to Windows. Although this is only one person's opinion and there is no scientific evidence it just feels faster. -Tom

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-06-27 Thread Chris Lale
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. The emulators I tried are DOSEMU + Freedos, BOCHS + MSDOS

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-06-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. The emulators I tried are DOSEMU + Freedos, BOCHS + MSDOS 6.22, and QEMU + MSDOS

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-06-26 Thread Tom Grove
Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. The emulators I tried are DOSEMU + Freedos, BOCHS + MSDOS 6.22, and QEMU + MSDOS

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-06-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Tom Grove wrote: I would like to see how VirtualBox stands up against the others. It seems to be the fastest emulator when it comes to Windows. Although this is only one person's opinion and there is no scientific evidence it just feels faster. Post a URL. I have been running some

Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-06-25 Thread Mike McCarty
I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. The emulators I tried are DOSEMU + Freedos, BOCHS + MSDOS 6.22, and QEMU + MSDOS 6.22. I found that each