From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 15:47:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023E4106567A for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:47:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gljennjohn@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F678FC0A for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:47:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwe15 with SMTP id 15so3206002wwe.31 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:47:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:reply-to:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=R8Clj2C5Rk6gviTAANcExmH8ZdzSPbj5PRcLdh/quso=; b=kkG+g7NdKiOGnIEgXXBiMkqSoANWjqQx7wTOgdAfDZ+vPO7CLcJ9dP6tWP/MTHOzlB KQ6Zo93YRO6XgxzLOkATG1egAGN9JjgyuxKjWJGMBAXvytasYy0lPUKhd2BFah6NAl3Y viyNoLCXVeCxIX5vL2b4V9/T4LbF7TkZ9BDR4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:reply-to :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ebpq6plxf/AkFlevMD5Ggcp4BfkCf7ebTz/XGJ5PdP2W9Ou0m4gAC8UG7LzV/KTzSZ 2ZicX1ybq4VDSOY8FyVB5oo3qa6VYEAAhql53XCpqSWkA5ARsx5L8kPXG42TYbooXw8P fbMo4Qfj0NzQ7TOfUz7ry9raAaAWASNPvKRsA= Received: by 10.227.68.207 with SMTP id w15mr2092282wbi.75.1279813628483; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:47:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ernst.jennejohn.org (p578E28AE.dip.t-dialin.net [87.142.40.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f32sm813177wbe.18.2010.07.22.08.47.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:47:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:47:05 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Harald Servat Message-ID: <20100722174705.1388ffbd@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.18.7; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VirtualBox for FreeBSD in an Intel Atom processor X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:47:13 -0000 On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:24:52 +0200 Harald Servat wrote: > Another topic would be responsiveness, I know that Atom are not speedy, > but has anyone used it to virtualize another Linux (with or without X11) and > Windows (XP or 7)? > A friend has a netbook running FreeBSD. The older Atom CPU (single core @ 1.66GHz)is barely tolerable when it's running in native mode. You can forget about any sort of performance inside VirtualBox. Can't address the newer dual-core Atoms, but from I've read they're not suitable either. -- Gary Jennejohn