Firefox+Flash+Qemu

[Paul Chvostek]

> Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Do you run Qemu on FreeBSD?   It says only 'LINUX host only' for "User
> > Mode Emulation".   So, does that mean I can emulate a full system if
> > I am hosting it under FreeBSD?

It's a proper virtual machine, not like jail(8).  Check
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines for a list
of alternatives.

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 04:01:01PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
>
> I've only used it for hosting a WinXP-Pro guest - it's not as fast as
> VMWare,but i'm switching to linux just for that reason. And i wont be buying
> vmware workstation linux licenses (needed for VmWare Workstaion 3.x on FreeBSD
> host) - my Wkstation-Windows licenses are just fine (but not valid for linux,
> according to vmware's support).

QEMU can read and write vmdk files, so you may have an easy migration
path.  But if your issue is speed, have you looked at the kqemu-kmod
port?  It's the bit that allows guest code to run directly on the host
cpu.  YMMV, but it seems to allow QEMU to run Windows guests at about
the same speed as VMWare.  http://qemu.org/qemu-accel.html for details.

p

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  Paul Chvostek                                             <paul at it.ca>
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