Anyone know qemu?

[Sridhar M.A.]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:49:51PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
   > dannemil schrieb:
   > >This probably isn't what you wanted to hear, but in my experience qemu
   > >is almost worthless. I had it installed on a fast machine, and running
   > >it from within Ubuntu Linux was still painfully slow and unstable. It
   > >works, but it's not worth the time imho.
   > 
   > Did you use the kqemu kernel module? On the qemu webpage, they write,
   > that the guest should be almost as fast, as if it were running on
   > physical hardware.
   > 
I tried qemu and win98 under dapper/sarge. No problems at all. It was
quite simple. I had a couple of legacy dos apps which could be run under
dos running under qemu. That was really nice!

But kqemu is a different thing. It is not reliable on non-intel h/w. It
makes my machine (athlon) crawl. Trying to run win9x under qemu on that
machine is futile. Dropping kqemu gave me a decent performance though.
The only irritant I noticed is mouse does not work reliably :-(


Regards,

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Sridhar M.A.    

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