http://blogs.gentoo.org/hollow?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:44:49 +0000 Dan Ballard [Visitor] c1473@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ For me VM sarts and ends with QEmu. It's free and open source so I either don't have to buy vmware or keep opening a new hotmail acount every month for a new key.<br /> <br /> As for QEmu, with the kqemu accelerator it's quite decently fast. I'm slowly building an OS Farm with it (a collection of OSs installed in emulation http://www.mindstab.net/wiki/index.php/OS_Farm). By default networking works fine enough for browsing, but with some tun device and bridging work you can get it doing everything (starcraft on win98 in linux at a lan party)<br /> <br /> So Qemu has been very useful to me on several fronts both play and experimentation/learning. I honeslty don;t see why people don't pour more attention into it but I'm not really a hard core VM guy so there may be some limitations it has I haven't run into. <br /> <br /> I would be interested to hear those just for knowing stuff's sake ;)<br /> <br /> Thanks
As for QEmu, with the kqemu accelerator it's quite decently fast. I'm slowly building an OS Farm with it (a collection of OSs installed in emulation http://www.mindstab.net/wiki/index.php/OS_Farm). By default networking works fine enough for browsing, but with some tun device and bridging work you can get it doing everything (starcraft on win98 in linux at a lan party)

So Qemu has been very useful to me on several fronts both play and experimentation/learning. I honeslty don;t see why people don't pour more attention into it but I'm not really a hard core VM guy so there may be some limitations it has I haven't run into.

I would be interested to hear those just for knowing stuff's sake ;)

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