Hello, I am a new user of qemu. I notice the user forum does not exist anymore, so I hope this is the appropriate place for comments.
After spending a day attempting to configure Bochs, I was pleased to find qemu works almost directly out of the box. My goal was to run Windows 98se under Windows XP so I could test software without running my old noisy machines. The first problem I noticed is that with the 0.70 version, keys are not mapped correctly. For example, if I try to type in a URL as soon as I press the letter e explorer opens. As soon as I type the letter m, the window minimizes.... I installed a the "CVS" snapshot and that problem appears to be fixed. I then got curious and wondered how fast is the virtual machine running. At times it seems like a 200MHz machine, and at other times it seems much faster. So I installed Norton Performance Test from my Norton System Works 2003 CD. However, whenever I launch the application I get the blue screen. Afterwards, other programs including explorer periodically cause blue screens. When I reboot, the qemu machine reports it failed to regrab the mouse and freezes until I close the window. Obviously more work is needed, but it is no worse quality wise than when I first beta tested VMWARE. I am particularly impressed with all the hardware platform that can be simulated. I am considering trying OSX simulation next. If the performance is comparable, then the simulated machine will be only slightly slower than my G3. Bill _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
