Why not just use VirtualBox instead, foregoing the unnecessary overhead of
emulating the hardware? Virtualization is /much/ more efficient and more
appropriate if you aren't running on a different architecture (ie. running
an x86 OS on PPC hardware).

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Rubin Bennett <[email protected]>wrote:

> Qemu is super cool, and is used on Windows as well (it's used as the
> testing mechanism for the UBUSB Ultimate USB Boot disk, Windows PE
> system).  I've used it a few times in the past, in both Linux and
> Windows, for simple-ish virtualization tasks.
> I know, I know, yer all gasping with horror that I of all people would
> stoop to using a Windows boot environment, but even my customers (or
> family/ friends, more often :) manage to get viruses on their
> workstations occasionally, and it sure is nice to boot off a stick,
> clean the viruses with Avast, and reboot 'em from their nice, clean
> drive again.
>
> Rubin
>
> On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 13:36 -0500, chris yarger wrote:
> > dear vilinous vaguerants,
> > i have found a very nice little processer emulator  celled Qemu
> >
> > http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/
> >
> > with it i am able to install and run a copy of ubuntu from a flash
> > drive within a windows box, very similar to a portable virtual.
> > no local installs are necissary,
> > does anyone know of anything else that is similar?
> > warmest regards,
> >
> > Chris Yarger
> >
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