Re: QEmu and Wine

["Bas v.d. Wiel" <bas@extranet.kompas-media.nl>]

Vincent Bernat wrote:

> OoO En ce début d'après-midi ensoleillé du lundi 31 janvier 2005, vers
> 15:06, "Bas v.d. Wiel" <bas@extranet.kompas-media.nl> disait:
>
>  
>
> > 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.
> >    
>
> Qemu is also able to do CPU emulation at application level. This means
> that  you  can  launch  Linux/x86  applications  from  Linux/PPC.  For
> example, Macromedia Flash.  You should then be able  to launch Wine as
> well.
>  
That sounds interesting! Can you tell me more about the performance of 
such a setup? I'd figure you don't need to emulate a whole system in 
this way, making the resulting emulation faster than Bochs and the whole 
desktop experience much more integrated. Is this a viable option for day 
to day use?

Bas