My Qemu experience was not good either. Many good things heard about win4solaris, but it is a commercial product and not cheap.
I want to put all options on the table with full disclosure. To say it can't be done with Solaris is an gross overstatement. Xen has also been mentioned as an alternative but I have no experience with it. -Bob Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this mail are my own, and are not necessarily shared by my employer Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Dennis Clarke wrote: >> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I'm in the unfortunate postion of having to run some Windoze apps >>>> (stupid vendor thinks that Windoze is a good development platform...), >>>> but natuarally enough, I find Solaris to be a much more productive >>>> environment. Looks like the best way forward would be to run >>>> Windoze in some sort of VM, a la VMware. Assuming its possible, >>>> what's the best way of running Windoze as a client OS in a virtual >>>> machine, with Nevada build 70 (or newer) as the host OS? >>>> >>>> >>> The best way ? >>> >>> Can't be done with Solaris. Period. >>> >>> >> Not true. You're focused only on VMware, I think >> he only gave that merely as a possible solution example. >> > > No Sir. > > I can assure you that I live in front of Solaris on a day to day basis and I > have *really* tried to run some sort of virtual machine. I don't need > Windows for much of anything other than Lotus Notes work and the IBM people > seem to be moving like molasses on a re-release of the Solaris x86 ( or > Sparc ! ) based Lotus Notes client again. So I have tried : > > http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/stuff/thin/remote_virtual_machine_qemu.png > > and tried > > http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/stuff/thin/qemu_082_sparcv8plus_win98_boot.png > > and tried > > http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/stuff/thin/qemu_082_sparcv8plus_win98_mem_err.png > > and tried : > > http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/stuff/thin/windows_world.png > > with QEMU and in every case it was so slow and with network functionality > that was terrible. > > I really need to climb back on that horse again and see if I can virtualize > x86 from a Sparc machine and vice versa. Who know .. I think Ben Taylor has > done great work with QEMU and there may be reason to revisit this again. > > But for a supported environment you need VMware. > > >> Can be done with win4solaris. >> http://www.win4solaris.com >> > > I must check that out! > > >> Also qemu, if you don't mind rolling up your sleeves a bit. >> Lots of info on both of these on blogs.sun.com. >> > > within a year this may be a moot topic where we have QEMU running like a > charm. In my opinion QEMU is an emulator as opposed to a simulator. It > replaces the hardware from the barewire up. I think that VMware is a > simulator or layer on top of the OS and hardware which allows some code to > execute on the actual hardware. Within QEMU you are living in a virtual > hardware world at all times. > > Other people may certainly add a great deal more to this I am sure. > > Dennis > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
