I have just tried it on a Intel 2 Duo machine and I have to say it is very good and will keep most people happy. Not sure what is the difference between this and installing Xen, but I got Windows XP up and running very quickly (It took longer to install XP/patches than to get QEMU running).
Not looked at the networking side of it yet, since it is does not working 100%, but I will need to do some reading. Andrew > I've recently used Qemu, downloaded from: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/qemu/downloads/ > > - QEMU CVS Code drop ? 2007/06/12, with patches > - KQEMU CVS Code drop ? 2007/05/20 > > You need the two of these to get things working best, KQEMU is the kernel > driver > which greatly accelerates things PROVIDED that you run the same qemu binary > that > matches your kernel, i.e. one of : > > /opt/SUNWqemu/bin/qemu-system-arm > /opt/SUNWqemu/bin/qemu-system-i80586 > /opt/SUNWqemu/bin/qemu-system-i80686 > /opt/SUNWqemu/bin/qemu-system-mips > /opt/SUNWqemu/bin/qemu-system-mipsel > /opt/SUNWqemu/bin/qemu-system-ppc > /opt/SUNWqemu/bin/qemu-system-sparc > /opt/SUNWqemu/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 > > The default (which qemu is a sym link to) is qemu-system-i80686 - for my Acer > Ferrari, I had to use qemu-system-x86_64 (with a 64-bit kernel) - once you > make > this match, Qemu can use the kernel driver to use the h/w to run VM. > > If you don't match the kernel and the version of qemu, you will end up with a > *software* simulate virtualisation which is simply horrible. > > There is a lot of useful information on this site and mailing lists... > > HTH, > > Darren. > > Rich Teer wrote: >> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Bob Doolittle wrote: >> >>> Not true. You're focused only on VMware, I think >>> he only gave that merely as a possible solution example. >> Correct. For the avoidance of doubt, I'm looking for >> an x86-based solution. >> >>> Can be done with win4solaris. >>> http://www.win4solaris.com >> Interesting... I'll look into that and Xen. :-) >> >>> Personally, I have a two-box solution. My main >>> desktop is Solaris, but I run VMware ESX 3.0.2 on a >>> specially-config'd Ultra 40, with VMs of several >>> Linux distros and Windows and several Solaris >>> releases (I need to test with all of these). I >>> use an RDP client to connect to Windows from a >>> window on my Solaris desktop (I use the Sun Ray >>> Windows Connector product for this, but there's >>> also the freeware rdesktop client). >> Two boxes would be a PITA for me. I'm developing some code >> for an embedded device, and most of the tools rely on Windoze >> (though I'm beginning to assemble a decent Solaris-based >> tool set). >> > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
