From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 24 20:45:52 2008 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 CD1D916A41A for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:45:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.bluestop.org (muon.bluestop.org [IPv6:2001:41c8:1:548a::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC6413C448 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:45:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from [IPv6:2a01:348:10f:0:19aa:6c52:717:167f] (unknown [IPv6:2a01:348:10f:0:19aa:6c52:717:167f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.bluestop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F033031E; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:45:50 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4798F8D2.6030105@cran.org.uk> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:45:06 +0000 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jackbarnett@gmail.com References: <4797917B.4020600@gmail.com> <20080123142316.2d3ef433.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20080123213211.M8757@Robert-Eckardt.de> <47985BEA.60805@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47985BEA.60805@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Robert Eckardt , Bill Moran , Freebsd questions Subject: Re: VM Options 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: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:45:52 -0000 Jack Barnett wrote: > > Robert Eckardt wrote: >> It depends on what you want to do. > > To clarify, I would like to run Windows XP at least > > VMWare runs WinXP beautifully - but unfortunately VMWare doesn't well > under FreeBSD. > Last time I tried Qemu it was fairly slow. > > So Jail, Qemu and VMWare crossed off the list, any other options? While Qemu is normally slow, there was a SoC project to add KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) support to FreeBSD - it uses the virtualization features built in to modern Intel and AMD CPUs. It speeds things up substantially. For more information go to http://feanor.sssup.it/~fabio/freebsd/lkvm/ If that doesn't work then you could also try emulators/kqemu-kmod/ - while it doesn't take advantage of the VT or SVM features in modern CPUs, it allows Qemu to run a lot of code natively and so speeds things up quite a bit. -- Bruce