Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
>> I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux,
>> and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them,
>> based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation.
>>
>> The emulators I tried are DOSEMU + Freedos, BOCHS + MSDOS 6.22, and
>> QEMU + MSDOS 6.22. I found that each had advantages and disadvantages.
>> I also ran MSDOS 6.0 natively.
>>
>> Two machines were used. One is an AMD 586 with 16MB of RAM and a
>> 160 MHz processor. Another is a Presario with a 2.7 GHz Celeron.
>> The AMD was used only for running MSDOS 6.0 natively. The Celeron
>> was used to run the emulators with Linux, and also to do some
>> native MSDOS 6.0.
>>
>> install share speed CPU hardware soft events
>> DOSEMU easy easy fast low Intel only not all no
>> BOCHS hard hard v.slow high Intel only all yes
>> QEMU hard hard slow high multiple all no
>>
>> install: ease of installation
>> share: ease of sharing files between emulation and Linux
>> speed: speed of emulation
>> CPU: how much CPU does the emulation burn
>> hardware: emulates other than Intel hardware
>> soft: runs all software
>> events: supports emulating hardware events
>>
>> QEMU runs something like 5x to 10x as fast as BOCHS. DOSEMU runs
>> 40x to 50x as fast as QEMU.
>>
>> BOCHS allows one to emulate various hard drives down to the
>> level of CHS.
>>
>
> Did you run kqemu with qemu?
>
Have a look at the current thread "OT: QEMU Package faster" [1] if you want to
get the best performance using QEMU's "-kernel-kqemu" option.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/06/msg02404.html
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Chris.
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