Re: QEmu and Wine
Carsten Friede wrote:
Hello!
I'm new to PowerPC and related stuff. Under Linux/x86 I was used to
run some Win32 applications with Wine, but here on my new iBook the
build from source fails already. I've figured out that there is a
solution with QEmu. But what do I have to do?
There are neither packages of Wine and it's libraries nor static
versions of it for ppc, so I have to choose the ones for i386
architecture. Fine. And now?
Is there anybody, who has a clue to get this stuff running? I really
need it, there are a few Windows applications, which are essential for
my studies. Thanks in advance.
Carsten Friede
There's no way to run Wine on anything other than an x86 platform. On a
PPC you have to emulate the complete CPU, which WINE doesn't do and thus
it only exists for x86. Your free alternatives for PPC under Linux are
Bochs and Qemu. They both emulate a complete x86 system under Linux on
your PPC. However, don't expect anything near the performance of WINE as
it is on an x86.
For instance, I attempted to install Windows 98 within Bochs on my dual
G5 2.0 and it's approximately 10 times slower than the Athlon XP 2000+
sitting next to it. My Bochs uses only a single CPU, so expect Pentium I
200MHz. performance levels from the mentioned G5. This could still be
enough for things like MS Office (hardly CPU or IO intensive), but you
can forget about anything heavily dependent on IO or the CPU.
Kind regards,
Bas v.d. Wiel
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