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I am also happy with QEMU. I used for an online game that uses DirectPlay wich is not supported by cedega or wine. Im running WinXPSP2 |
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and it is really stable. |
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The different license for kqemu is no problem. You are free to use it, but if you want to integrate it in a product you want to |
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sell/distribute you have to ask. |
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/Uwe |
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Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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> On 1/10/06, Tom Smith <tom71713-gentoo52478932@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>Hi all, |
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>>I've been using Win4Lin TS 3.0 for some time to server Win98SE to five |
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>>remote users for legacy application support. |
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>>I'm currently testing the recently released Win4Lin Pro TS server |
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>>running Win2k as an intended replacement for the old TS server. This is |
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>>where I came across QEMU... |
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>>QEMU appears to have functionality similar to VMWare (I haven't tried it |
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>>yet). I'm curious to here other Gentoo users' experience with this |
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>>software. I will be using in a production environment so stability and |
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>>uptime are very important, as are reasonable performance. |
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> I used it to run the Office Viewers, hate when you receive a .doc with |
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> strange chars and everything borked, WMP is the only thing that runs |
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> some cranky pieces of video files decently, some sites only work |
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> decently with IE and other apps are still to be correct run under |
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> stuff like wine and such. I have an old license for win98 and so it |
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> was my choice, besides any other would run too slowly because I only |
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> have an Athlon XP 1.6, but it runs flawless for a long time. Instant |
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> boot with the savevm and loadvm commands make it even better than the |
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> real thing :) |
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> I never had problems, you can install the OS and use the -snapshot |
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> mode to never really "mess" with the original install, and even commit |
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> changes after you feel its safe. |
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> I must mention that the kqemu kernel module (needed in order to |
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> provide decent speed) has a different license (its proprietary |
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> software), and without it I couldn't stand the wait, so, I use it. I |
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> don't know if it fits your needs and never used it at production |
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> environment, but it is as stable as Win itself (heh), at least for me. |
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>>I would very much appreciate any feedback you all can give me about your |
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>>experience with QEMU. |
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>>Best Wishes, |
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>>Tom |
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>>gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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> Daniel da Veiga |
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