Re: virtual machine software

2008-04-03 Thread Jim Stapleton
OK, it's working now. Slowly, but working (I'm guessing the lackluster performance is due to having it use 768MB memory, when the host only has 1GB, easy enough to fix, there are several solutions). -Jim Stapleton On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: Sorry, QEmu crashes when I try to boot the CD. Same happens with Bochs. -Jim Stapleton If it crashes with 'Bad system call' make sure you have aio support loaded. I missed it when I recently

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Bruce Cran
Jim Stapleton wrote: I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install. I wouldn't mind VMWare, but I want to run it under trial first if possible. Any documents/suggestions that anyone can point me to? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton There's also VMWare Server, which is free. --

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:37:50PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install. I wouldn't mind VMWare, but I want to run it under trial first if possible. Bochs works, but it is slow. I would investigate _why_ it doesn't install under

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
Sorry, QEmu crashes when I try to boot the CD. Same happens with Bochs. -Jim Stapleton On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:37:50PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install.

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
Really? And runs on FreeBSD (or does it use Linux Compat?) On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install. I wouldn't mind VMWare, but I want to run it under trial first if

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 09:50:26AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:37:50PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install. I wouldn't mind

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Outback Dingo
have you tried VirtualBox ??? On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 09:50:26AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:37:50PM -0400, Jim Stapleton

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Bruce Cran
Jim Stapleton wrote: Really? And runs on FreeBSD (or does it use Linux Compat?) I don't think any modern versions of VMWare run on FreeBSD - the version in ports is 3.x. -- Bruce On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: I need to get a

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Bruce Cran
Jim Stapleton wrote: Sorry, QEmu crashes when I try to boot the CD. Same happens with Bochs. -Jim Stapleton If it crashes with 'Bad system call' make sure you have aio support loaded. I missed it when I recently installed it, but the pkg-message does mention it: - qemu now uses aio at

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 23:37 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install. I wouldn't mind VMWare, but I want to run it under trial first if possible. Any documents/suggestions that anyone can point me to? I'm not certain that it is