From: yuval tanny (tanai_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Thu 27 May 2004 - 23:17:51 IDT
Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> 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?
>
I use it (QEMU) to try LiveCDs. It works, but slowly (very slow compare
to VMWare). To run knoppix:
qemu -cdrom knoppix.iso -m 200
This gives knoppix 200MB of ram.
It also a VERY simple way to run minix: "qemu minix203.img"
=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-request_at_linux.org.il with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-request_at_linux.org.il
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Thu 27 May 2004 - 23:24:49 IDT