Re: [Hampshire] Virtual Box

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Author: Adam Trickett
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On Sunday 11 Nov 2007, Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 10:35 +0000, Adam Trickett wrote:
> > Compared with Qemu/kqemu I'd say that both versions of Windows booted and
> > ran much faster than Qemu,
>
> I did some rough benchmarking comparing kvm, qemu/kqemu and Virtual box
> a while ago. I found qemu/kqemu was a bit faster than all the others.
> This was a few months ago, and things may have moved on since of course.


Things constantly change, which amazes me.

The problem I have with qemu/kqemu is that only WinNT4 seems to run in the
kqemu mode everything else fails to run with client side BSOD or kernel
panics. I'm running qemu under AMD64 not i386 so odd things happen.

I've used qemu for about 2 years now, and it's gradually got better, kqemu
support for example when it works is great. However at the same time I've
also found that AoE now runs for a while then the mouse goes insane and the
client has to be shutdown and restarted.

At the moment my WinNT4 system in VirtualBox seems faster than the same setup
in qemu, but the qemu version has sound which I've not got working yet in VB.
Ironically I've found that AoE now more or less works on WINE, which was the
purpose of my original motive to get Windows running in a virtual system!

It would be nice if they could use each others virtual file system containers,
then sharing between the two would be easier.



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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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