> >> Is there an alternative to it ? > > > > No. > > That is tough ... ! So my hardware is officially obsolete. > > I had to get away with those other emulators provided by commercial > companies. VMWare said my hardware does not support virtualization > (much like qemu), but VirtualBox worked surprisingly well and uses the > CPU natively (no emulation, faster than my qemu without kvm).
IIRC, VirtualBox take approach similar to kqemu does, i.e., translate privilege instructions only and run non-privilege instructions on host cpu directly. Regards, chenwj -- Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任) Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667 Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj