From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 24 20:58:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A4C1065673 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:58:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A39518FC16 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:58:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id D8EFD1E0017C; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:59:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from triton.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by triton.kn-bremen.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n3OKo4ad014517; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:50:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox@triton.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by triton.kn-bremen.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n3OKo3NK014516; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:50:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:50:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Juergen Lock Message-Id: <200904242050.n3OKo3NK014516@triton.kn-bremen.de> To: andrewlylegould@gmail.com X-Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.questions In-Reply-To: References: <20090424151827.GA13967@rebelion.Sisis.de> Organization: home Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Win4BSD -- any comments or experiences? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:58:23 -0000 In article you write: >On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in Spanish, I've got a pointer to >> this software: >> >> http://win4bsd.com/wp/win4bsd-free-for-non-commercial-use/ >> >> Any comments about or test results in compare with Qemu? >> Thx >> >> matthias >> -- >> Matthias Apitz >> Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH >> Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany >> t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 >> e - w http://www.oclc.org/ >> http://www.UnixArea.de/ >> People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use >> FreeBSD. >> _______________________________________________ >> > > >I played with win4bsd for awhile. It works well for normal desktop usage. >Unfortunately, virtual os setups do not handle complex data analysis of >extremely large data sets well. I think it has to do with memory >usage/management. Otherwise, I liked win4bsd a lot. Well I haven't actually tried win4bsd, only researched about it one the web a little once and noticed it seems to be based on an old version of qemu (it still uses kqemu 1.3.* not 1.4.* like current qemu - which btw is the only reason I haven't removed the old kqemu from ports and renamed the new one, i.e. emulators/kqemu-kmod still is the old one.) Now does that mean current qemu is better/more stable than win4bsd if all you want is emulate something like xp? I don't know... (Maybe the win4bsd folks have incorporated other fixes that aren't in qemu yet? At least they certainly seem to have added features...) Cheers, Juergen