On Thu, October 20, 2005 7:53 am, Tom Marble wrote: > Scot Jenkins wrote: >> I originally tried bochs [1]. While bochs worked, the virtual machine >> ran much slower than VMware. > > Another alternative is QEMU (it hasn't been mentioned on this list > since May 2004): > > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-accel.html > > It is easily several *times* faster than bochs -- especially > with the acceleration (which, unfortunately, is not GPL). > I'm going the other way right now with QEMU using it under Windows to run Linux for a class I'm teaching. It allows me access to the schools network and no modification of the system and I can run Linux. I've got RH9 (the class uses a book based on it) and SuSE 9.3 currently setup on a USB harddrive with Qemu on the drive as well. I'll be adding Fedora Core 4 and probably one of the K/Ubuntu versions in the near future as well. One thing I've noticed is that you need to increase the emulators memory level from the base 128Mb if you want current, bulky desktops (KDE 3.4 in SuSE 9.3's case) to work with any usability. I've found that if I can give the emulator 192Mb of RAM it works for SuSE. DSL, which i've run from an iso file works just fine in 128Mb of RAM. ;-) The next step is to run Qemu under Linux and see how well Windows works in the emulator. Jack -- Jack Ungerleider The Ungerleider Group jack at jacku.com http://www.jacku.com