Re: Win4BSD -- any comments or experiences?

2009-04-24 Thread Andrew Gould
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Juergen Lock wrote:

> In article 
> you write:
> >On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matthias Apitz 
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in Spanish, I've got a pointer to
> >> this software:
> >>
> >> http://win4bsd.com/wp/win4bsd-free-for-non-commercial-use/
> >>
> >> Any comments about or test results in compare with Qemu?
> >> Thx
> >>
> >>matthias
> >> --
> >> Matthias Apitz
> >> Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH
> >> Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany
> >> t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211
> >> e  - w http://www.oclc.org/
> >> http://www.UnixArea.de/
> >> People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use
> >> FreeBSD.
> >> ___
> >>  
> >
> >
> >I played with win4bsd for awhile.  It works well for normal desktop usage.
> >Unfortunately, virtual os setups do not handle complex data analysis of
> >extremely large data sets well.  I think it has to do with memory
> >usage/management.  Otherwise, I liked win4bsd a lot.
>
> Well I haven't actually tried win4bsd, only researched about it one the
> web a little once and noticed it seems to be based on an old version
> of qemu (it still uses kqemu 1.3.* not 1.4.* like current qemu - which
> btw is the only reason I haven't removed the old kqemu from ports and
> renamed the new one, i.e. emulators/kqemu-kmod still is the old one.)
>
>  Now does that mean current qemu is better/more stable than win4bsd if
> all you want is emulate something like xp?  I don't know...  (Maybe the
> win4bsd folks have incorporated other fixes that aren't in qemu yet?
> At least they certainly seem to have added features...)
>
>  Cheers,
> Juergen
>

I used an early version of win4bsd.  It was a no-brainer to install!  The
win4bsd folks did very well in this regard.

Andrew
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Re: Win4BSD -- any comments or experiences?

2009-04-24 Thread Juergen Lock
In article  you 
write:
>On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matthias Apitz  wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in Spanish, I've got a pointer to
>> this software:
>>
>> http://win4bsd.com/wp/win4bsd-free-for-non-commercial-use/
>>
>> Any comments about or test results in compare with Qemu?
>> Thx
>>
>>matthias
>> --
>> Matthias Apitz
>> Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH
>> Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany
>> t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211
>> e  - w http://www.oclc.org/
>> http://www.UnixArea.de/
>> People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use
>> FreeBSD.
>> ___
>>  
>
>
>I played with win4bsd for awhile.  It works well for normal desktop usage.
>Unfortunately, virtual os setups do not handle complex data analysis of
>extremely large data sets well.  I think it has to do with memory
>usage/management.  Otherwise, I liked win4bsd a lot.

Well I haven't actually tried win4bsd, only researched about it one the
web a little once and noticed it seems to be based on an old version
of qemu (it still uses kqemu 1.3.* not 1.4.* like current qemu - which
btw is the only reason I haven't removed the old kqemu from ports and
renamed the new one, i.e. emulators/kqemu-kmod still is the old one.)

 Now does that mean current qemu is better/more stable than win4bsd if
all you want is emulate something like xp?  I don't know...  (Maybe the
win4bsd folks have incorporated other fixes that aren't in qemu yet?
At least they certainly seem to have added features...)

 Cheers,
Juergen
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Re: Win4BSD -- any comments or experiences?

2009-04-24 Thread Andrew Gould
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matthias Apitz  wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in Spanish, I've got a pointer to
> this software:
>
> http://win4bsd.com/wp/win4bsd-free-for-non-commercial-use/
>
> Any comments about or test results in compare with Qemu?
> Thx
>
>matthias
> --
> Matthias Apitz
> Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH
> Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany
> t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211
> e  - w http://www.oclc.org/
> http://www.UnixArea.de/
> People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use
> FreeBSD.
> ___
>  


I played with win4bsd for awhile.  It works well for normal desktop usage.
Unfortunately, virtual os setups do not handle complex data analysis of
extremely large data sets well.  I think it has to do with memory
usage/management.  Otherwise, I liked win4bsd a lot.

Andrew
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Win4BSD -- any comments or experiences?

2009-04-24 Thread Matthias Apitz

Hello,

Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in Spanish, I've got a pointer to
this software:

http://win4bsd.com/wp/win4bsd-free-for-non-commercial-use/

Any comments about or test results in compare with Qemu?
Thx

matthias
-- 
Matthias Apitz
Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH
Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany
t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211
e  - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/
People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use 
FreeBSD.
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