From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 19 06:45:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E680E16A403 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:45:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul+fbsd@it.ca) Received: from mail2.dm.egate.net (mail2.dm.egate.net [216.235.1.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5529543D45 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:45:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul+fbsd@it.ca) Received: from mail.it.ca (root@[216.235.7.67]) by mail2.dm.egate.net (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k8J6j4xN077906; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:45:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from paul+fbsd@it.ca) Received: from mail.it.ca (paul@mail [216.235.7.67]) by mail.it.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k8J6j37l036282; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:45:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from paul+fbsd@it.ca) Received: (from paul@localhost) by mail.it.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id k8J6j3dK036281; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:45:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from paul+fbsd@it.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.it.ca: paul set sender to paul+fbsd@it.ca using -f Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:45:03 -0400 From: Paul Chvostek To: Norberto Meijome Message-ID: <20060919064503.GA35287@it.ca> References: <20060914215728.8113.qmail@web34402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <257D290F82FC6FAB8865E52F@gumby.localdomain> <20060916123059.6d047f8a@localhost> <20060918143848.GA12668@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20060919160101.7147a01b@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060919160101.7147a01b@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Cc: Jerry McAllister , FreeBSD Users Questions , RW Subject: Re: Firefox+Flash+Qemu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:45:08 -0000 > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > Do you run Qemu on FreeBSD? It says only 'LINUX host only' for "User > > Mode Emulation". So, does that mean I can emulate a full system if > > I am hosting it under FreeBSD? It's a proper virtual machine, not like jail(8). Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines for a list of alternatives. On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 04:01:01PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > > I've only used it for hosting a WinXP-Pro guest - it's not as fast as > VMWare,but i'm switching to linux just for that reason. And i wont be buying > vmware workstation linux licenses (needed for VmWare Workstaion 3.x on FreeBSD > host) - my Wkstation-Windows licenses are just fine (but not valid for linux, > according to vmware's support). QEMU can read and write vmdk files, so you may have an easy migration path. But if your issue is speed, have you looked at the kqemu-kmod port? It's the bit that allows guest code to run directly on the host cpu. YMMV, but it seems to allow QEMU to run Windows guests at about the same speed as VMWare. http://qemu.org/qemu-accel.html for details. p -- Paul Chvostek it.canada http://www.it.ca/