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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Interesting, but I wonder whether a guitar player / chip designer type |
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> guy could set it up? Spartanic is not generally a good environment for |
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> the likes of us. |
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Qemu at the moment is a command-line app, with the graphical output in a |
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window, though I believe to have heard of gui frontends but never |
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actually used one. VMWare has a graphical configuration and some extra |
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convenience features that make it somewhat easier to use (e.g. bridged |
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networking is a lot easier to set up and the VMware tools for windows |
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have some nice extra features). In time, these convenience features |
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will probably be incorporated into qemu, too. I don't know about |
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Parallels, never tried it. |
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I would suggest trying out the trial versions of VMware and Parallels to |
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see if you want to pay for them. As to qemu, the qemu documentation [1] |
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and user forums [2] will probably have some useful info. There is also |
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a nice repository of free os images that are ready to use [3]. |
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> The web page say this module is closed source. If that's the case then |
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> why qemu vs. VMware vs. Parallels? |
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Well kqemu is gratis, and if you insist on free you can use qvm86, |
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though that might be less tested. As a kernel module can always take |
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down your machine, i prefer the one a lot of people test -- i'm lazy :) |
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I don't know the history as to why kqemu is closed source (all of the |
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author's other projects are open-source), but i'm hopeful that will change. |
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> Thanks. It's very intersting. How does this compare to BOCHS? |
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To my knowledge bochs is a lot slower than qemu even without kqemu. |
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I've never tried it myself though as i've always been happy with qemu, |
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so that might all be lies :) |
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Wikipedia has a nice page comparing emulation/virtualization/... |
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solutions [4]. |
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Marco |
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[1] http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/user-doc.html |
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[2] http://qemu.dad-answers.com/ |
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[3] http://free.oszoo.org/ |
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[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines |
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