Re: VMware and QEMU (was Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable)

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:15:25PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 August 2004 07:31 pm, Gregory Pierce wrote:
> 
> > you can emulate the whole Windows XP (or any other brand of WIndows)
> > environment with a proprietary package called VMware. 
> 
> My new favorite toy is QEMU, which is a system emulator built around a CPU 
> emulator ala Bochs, except that it's actually fast enough to be usable.
> 
> How good is it?  I installed Windows XP in a QEMU virtual machine today at 
> work, and tomorrow I plan to install SP2 on it.  For me, it's good enough 
> that I expect to be wiping the drives on the little computer that I currently 
> keep around solely to run Quickbooks Pro.

Gregory,

Could you get the network connection working from Windows XP?  I have also
installed XP on qemu but I had no success in getting the network
working.

Regards
Johann
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