Re: extremely poor bochs performance

2005-01-27 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, I tried QEMU and it runs *much* faster. The only problem is that there is a bug in it that stops the machine from booting successfully. See this thread: http://www.dad-answers.com/qemu-forum/viewtopic.php?p=890#890 which refers to this one: http://www.dad-answers.com/qemu-forum/viewtopi

Re: extremely poor bochs performance

2005-01-23 Thread Stewart Smith
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 23:11 +0100, Arne Caspari wrote: > But OTOH VirtualPC for MacOS X is way faster than qemu. I guess the code > for those emulators is just not optimized for the PPC. For instance I > remember some trick in VirtualPC that accelerates the endianess > conversion or something li

Re: extremely poor bochs performance

2005-01-22 Thread Arne Caspari
Michel DÃnzer wrote: On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 13:45 +, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: I realise that I'm not going to get native speed but I would have thought that a 1.5Gz G4 would at least equal the performance of my ageing 1.33GHz Athlon. I'm afraid that's unrealistic. qemu may be faster, but it

Re: extremely poor bochs performance

2005-01-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 13:45 +, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > > I realise that I'm not going to get native speed but I would have > thought that a 1.5Gz G4 would at least equal the performance of my > ageing 1.33GHz Athlon. I'm afraid that's unrealistic. qemu may be faster, but it's still onl

extremely poor bochs performance

2005-01-22 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, I wonder if anyone could shed any light on an issue I've been having with bochs. I am trying to negate the need for my x86 (Athlon) desktop by installing Windows 2000 on my PowerBook5,4. The problem is that it is mind-bogglingly slow. It took 10 hours to install Windows and takes about 5