Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: >> I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, >> and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, >> based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. >> >> The emulators I tried are DOSEMU + Freedos, BOCHS + MSDOS 6.22, and >> QEMU + MSDOS 6.22. I found that each had advantages and disadvantages. >> I also ran MSDOS 6.0 natively. >> >> Two machines were used. One is an AMD 586 with 16MB of RAM and a >> 160 MHz processor. Another is a Presario with a 2.7 GHz Celeron. >> The AMD was used only for running MSDOS 6.0 natively. The Celeron >> was used to run the emulators with Linux, and also to do some >> native MSDOS 6.0. >> >> install share speed CPU hardware soft events >> DOSEMU easy easy fast low Intel only not all no >> BOCHS hard hard v.slow high Intel only all yes >> QEMU hard hard slow high multiple all no >> >> install: ease of installation >> share: ease of sharing files between emulation and Linux >> speed: speed of emulation >> CPU: how much CPU does the emulation burn >> hardware: emulates other than Intel hardware >> soft: runs all software >> events: supports emulating hardware events >> >> QEMU runs something like 5x to 10x as fast as BOCHS. DOSEMU runs >> 40x to 50x as fast as QEMU. >> >> BOCHS allows one to emulate various hard drives down to the >> level of CHS. >> > > Did you run kqemu with qemu? >
Have a look at the current thread "OT: QEMU Package faster" [1] if you want to get the best performance using QEMU's "-kernel-kqemu" option. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/06/msg02404.html -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]