Re: The New Virtualizer on the Block
On Sunday 13 August 2006 11:33, Derek wrote:
> win4lin also
>
Yup. You pay for this one.
I believe it is based on one of the others (qemu?)
qemu is based on bochs
good old dosemu is around as well
the newer dosbox will let you mount and use real drives (dangerous?)
> On 8/13/06, David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> wrote:
> > Now we have four.
> > 1. Vmware: Proprietary. I installed their free version and could not
> > complete
> > bootup afterwards. Booted up knoppix and removed the vmware. Problem was
> > with
> > those ip numbers.
> > 2. Qemu: More of an emulater, very safe and very easy. Requires a
> > non-free ko
> > to run acceptably. Knoppix boots up but not its KDE. Other lighter DTMs
> > are
> > great. Dynabolic 1.* ran very nicely in qemu, 2.* no. Installed Windows
> > 98 under qemu with only a few problems.
> > 3. Xen. Runs patched Linux versions, that is host is virgin, guests are
> > adulterated to run with it :-). Have not tried it because I need it for
> > Windows which is not yet available and older Win98 will probably never
> > be. 4. The new boy, apparently an GPLed Virtuozzo, vpserver. This patches
> > the host
> > instead of the guests, opposite of Xen. Now offered on Debian Sid!
> >
> > Some questions before or mutilate my installation:
> > 1. How safe is the kernel patch? Anyone had to unpatch?
> > 2. How generic is it? (They offer prebuilt kernel images based on
> > previous versions 2.6.16, not 2.6.17--can I patch the latest and
> > greatest?) 3. Will it run Win98 or does it only work with Linux guest
> > kernels?
> >
> > Anyone used it, had success or not?
> >
> >
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