I'm using Vmware 5 running under Fedora Core 4 to host XP Pro when I need it. Its very fast, and has come a long way in regards to resizing the guest window or going back and forth from full screen. Great product. I'm running it on a Lat D810 2.13ghz with 1gig of RAM. Chris Smith -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Jack Ungerleider Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 10:29 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Re: vmware question 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 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list