Re: MS Windows emulator or VM with USB support

2007-04-21 Thread Garrett Cooper

Adam J Richardson wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Milan Knizek wrote:


Hello,

is there an emulator or virtual machine, which would run MS Windows 
on FreeBSD
as a host system and support USB devices? (I do not mean USB Mass 
Storage,

but e.g. Garmin GPS device with Garmin's MapSource.)

Preferrably some free software.

AFAIK wine cannot support usb devices, VMware Server 1.x does runs 
only on

linux.

Best regards,
Milan

--
Milan Knížek
http://milan-knizek.net/
e-mail knizek {na} volny {v} cz


Based on my experience VMware is the most complete VM that can deliver 
this. However, there are people working on porting Xen to FreeBSD 
(CURRENT I believe, not STABLE).


So stay tuned for Xen if you're interested..

-Garrett



Does Qemu do what you want? I'm installing Windows 2000 Professional
inside Qemu for some experiments. I don't know if it fulfils your USB
requirement, but it's free and I hear it runs on FreeBSD pretty well.

Hope this helps,
Adam J Richardson


	I've had a few rounds with Qemu on FreeBSD, Linux, Mac, and Windows, 
and each time when I try and get stuff setup, it breaks unfortunately 
(all of the above except Mac) or is too slow to be usable (Mac, because 
of my iBook's processor speed _).


	Xen isn't half bad though because it's cross architecture, similar to 
Qemu, but with more native emulating speeds. Unfortunately VMWare is 
only available for x86 CPUs and friends though, and although someone 
offered a bounty for proper Linux emulation of it on FreeBSD, it's 
probably going to be a while before it's available (at least until the 
linuxalator (sp?) gets fixed a bit more..).


Those are my 2 cents :).
-Garrett
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Re: MS Windows emulator or VM with USB support

2007-04-21 Thread Milan Knizek
On Saturday 21 of April 2007, Adam J Richardson wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Milan Knizek wrote:
  is there an emulator or virtual machine, which would run MS Windows on
  FreeBSD
  as a host system and support USB devices? (I do not mean USB Mass
  Storage,
  but e.g. Garmin GPS device with Garmin's MapSource.)
 
 Does Qemu do what you want? I'm installing Windows 2000 Professional
 inside Qemu for some experiments. I don't know if it fulfils your USB
 requirement, but it's free and I hear it runs on FreeBSD pretty well.

I have tried Qemu half year ago on linux and it almost got frozen when I 
switched Garmin on (the drivers were installed before).

May be I give it a try on FreeBSD.

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http://milan-knizek.net/
e-mail knizek {na} volny {v} cz
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Re: MS Windows emulator or VM with USB support

2007-04-20 Thread youshi10

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Milan Knizek wrote:


Hello,

is there an emulator or virtual machine, which would run MS Windows on FreeBSD
as a host system and support USB devices? (I do not mean USB Mass Storage,
but e.g. Garmin GPS device with Garmin's MapSource.)

Preferrably some free software.

AFAIK wine cannot support usb devices, VMware Server 1.x does runs only on
linux.

Best regards,
Milan

--
Milan Knížek
http://milan-knizek.net/
e-mail knizek {na} volny {v} cz


Based on my experience VMware is the most complete VM that can deliver this. 
However, there are people working on porting Xen to FreeBSD (CURRENT I believe, 
not STABLE).

So stay tuned for Xen if you're interested..

-Garrett

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Re: MS Windows emulator or VM with USB support

2007-04-20 Thread Adam J Richardson

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Milan Knizek wrote:


Hello,

is there an emulator or virtual machine, which would run MS Windows on 
FreeBSD
as a host system and support USB devices? (I do not mean USB Mass 
Storage,

but e.g. Garmin GPS device with Garmin's MapSource.)

Preferrably some free software.

AFAIK wine cannot support usb devices, VMware Server 1.x does runs 
only on

linux.

Best regards,
Milan

--
Milan Knížek
http://milan-knizek.net/
e-mail knizek {na} volny {v} cz


Based on my experience VMware is the most complete VM that can deliver 
this. However, there are people working on porting Xen to FreeBSD 
(CURRENT I believe, not STABLE).


So stay tuned for Xen if you're interested..

-Garrett



Does Qemu do what you want? I'm installing Windows 2000 Professional
inside Qemu for some experiments. I don't know if it fulfils your USB
requirement, but it's free and I hear it runs on FreeBSD pretty well.

Hope this helps,
Adam J Richardson

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