Re: QEmu and Wine
Bas v.d. Wiel schrieb:
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.
I know that QEmu and Bochs emulate complete systems, but what I try to
achieve, is using QEmu as a layer between Linux/PPC and Wine. To be more
precise, I imagine to start Wine within a QEmu session and with that my
Win32-Application. Therefore I have to install wine-i386. The reason for
this is, that I think it would be faster than a Win98 installation
within QEmu.
Is this possible to achieve or am I completely wrong?
I forgot to mention that my system is a 800MHz G4 iBook.
Carsten Friede
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