From: Diego Iastrubni (elcuco_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Thu 27 May 2004 - 23:40:28 IDT
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi People,
>
> Lately I've been following a project which might interest few people
> here. It's called: QEMU
>
> QEMU is an open source "Virtual PC" emulator. Unlike BOCHS, it's quite
> fast (a bit slower then VMWare, but not by much)..
>
> Although the project is in version 0.5.x stages (meaning - some
> necessary features are missing), it shows a great promise.
>
> Some of it's features:
>
> * Install (almost) any X86 OS as a guest (Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000,
> XP, 2003, *BSD, Linux, etc)
> * It's not only emulating full X86 system, but also:
>
> * PowerPC (604 for now)
> * ARM 7
> * Sparc (no FPU yet)
> So you can install some OS's (Linux PPC, Linux for ARM, SparcLinux,
> etc)
> * Fully open source (the engine is under LGPL, BIOS under MIT license,
> the program under GPL)..
>
> The program is still buggy and there are missing features there, but
> at the moment it looks great and I'm using Windows XP + Office XP with
> it, and it seems to work pretty well..
>
> Why do I mention it here? for quite few reasons:
>
> * If you plan to buy VMWare in the future, you might want to evaluate
> it before sinking $300 per machine
> * It can help when a user doesn't have money but do want to run his
> windows apps (Windows on Linux, Linux on Windows - QEMU can run on
> both and almost on any other unix)..
>
> URL: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
> I made a small Windows 98 (guest) howto [not finished yet] + some
> screenshots and a nightly source snapshot, available at:
> http://dad-answers.com/qemu/
>
Hetz,
How hard is to install XP or 2000? special kernel? special modules?
How hard is to run knoppixes from this beast?
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