extremely poor bochs performance
'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 minutes to boot up. 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.
The Athlon is able to run Windows 2000 in bochs at a usable speed.
I am giving bochs 256M of RAM so I don't think memory starvation is the
problem. Also, I have got IPS set to 10M in .bochsrc. Not sure if this
is correct for my processor, as it only gives benchmarks in
Pentium/Athlon terms in the config file.
Do you think that if I recompiled bochs for my specific CPU I would see
a sufficient increase in performance? (I'm planning to start using
apt-build at some point so this would be incentive to learn...)
Many thanks in advance for any info you might have. I am waiting for
the application I need to use (the QuArK map editor) to be ported to
Linux but until then I need access to a win32 version :-(.
bye just now,
--
Matthew T. Atkinson <matthew@agrip.org.uk>
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