On Sunday 02 August 2009 11:31:30 Giovanni Toraldo wrote: > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 19:50, David Baron<d_ba...@012.net.il> wrote: > > standard hardware emulation. I find it deadly slow there too. Problem may > > be the 16-bit nature of this old OS which prevents use of "full" > > virtualization in the kqemu kernel module. I believe that much of this > > code is also used in vbox. > > The main issue with Windows 98 (native 32 bits, as wikipedia says) is > the poor ACPI support, including the idle cpu command, that can be the > main reason for your slowness. > > Maybe the good old rain can be worth for a try =P > http://www.benchtest.com/rain.html > > Good luck.
I do not understand what rain (or others--I have used waterfall for a long time) would have to do with it. Win98 is 32bit must must support "native/old" 16-bit applications (all that damned thunking around). Later windows (starting with w2k?) got rid of the thunking and things ran much nicer. For XP, many things no longer ran at all, had to be recompiled. If I attempt Win98 with qemu with "full" virtualization, I get an error. I turn of ACPI in vbox. My mb does not work with it anyway. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
