The User Mode sounds interesting, any experiance with that? BTW you can see a more up to date screenshot, running WinXP on Linux, available here: http://linmagazine.co.il/node/view/1782
-- -------------------- Uri Sharf, Linmagazine http://linmagazine.co.il On Thursday 27 May 2004 16:10, you wrote: > Hi People, > > Lately I've been following a project which might interest few people > here. It's called: QEMU > > QEMU is an open source "Virtual PC" emulator. Unlike BOCHS, it's quite > fast (a bit slower then VMWare, but not by much).. > > Although the project is in version 0.5.x stages (meaning - some > necessary features are missing), it shows a great promise. > > Some of it's features: > > * Install (almost) any X86 OS as a guest (Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, > 2003, *BSD, Linux, etc) > * It's not only emulating full X86 system, but also: > > * PowerPC (604 for now) > * ARM 7 > * Sparc (no FPU yet) > So you can install some OS's (Linux PPC, Linux for ARM, SparcLinux, etc) > * Fully open source (the engine is under LGPL, BIOS under MIT license, > the program under GPL).. > > The program is still buggy and there are missing features there, but at > the moment it looks great and I'm using Windows XP + Office XP with it, > and it seems to work pretty well.. > > Why do I mention it here? for quite few reasons: > > * If you plan to buy VMWare in the future, you might want to evaluate it > before sinking $300 per machine > * It can help when a user doesn't have money but do want to run his > windows apps (Windows on Linux, Linux on Windows - QEMU can run on both > and almost on any other unix).. > > URL: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ > I made a small Windows 98 (guest) howto [not finished yet] + some > screenshots and a nightly source snapshot, available at: > http://dad-answers.com/qemu/ > > Thanks, > Hetz > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
