Re: coLinux - coFreeBSD available?

From: Rudolf Polzer (divverent_at_caths.co.uk)
Date: 08/04/05


Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 00:01:20 +0000 (UTC)


»Thomas Schweikle« <tps@vr-web.de> wrote:
> Michel Talon schrieb:
> > Thomas Schweikle <tps@vr-web.de> wrote:
> >> Christopher Nehren schrieb:
> >> > On 2005-07-04, Thomas Schweikle scribbled these
> >> > curious markings:
> >> >> qemu running on Windows? AFAIK not.
> >> >
> >> > Then you need to know more. It's been ported.
> >>
> >> Yes, I've seen it, but it isn't stable enough at the moment. But it
> >> is promising.
> >>
> > For me it runs perfectly OK under FreeBSD. I have run countless things
> > under qemu, this is a wonderful program, and it has the great advantage of
> > being free, in the two senses....
>
> Yes, it is running, and it is stable. Maybe the 0.6.1-Version had
> some problems. I couldn't find them using 0.7.1. Looks even like
> kqemu.ko is available and working (for Windows and FreeBSD).

(but not free)

> Speed is amazing.

Not really. I would just call it "good enough". WinXP still feels
awfully slow in there, especially when using remote desktop or graphics
in the qemu window. No idea what is the problem, but XP on qemu on
FreeBSD seems to drop packets (that's why rdesktop is slow). Networking
with Linux on qemu on FreeBSD works fine, however.

My old tests (without kqemu):
http://www.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~polzer/rbiclan/wiki/img/qemu-performance.png

(both using the same version and CPU settings of john)

Factor 50 for a full x86 emulator. Not bad. And it's probably became
better already.

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