Re: [Hampshire] Virtual Box

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Author: Alan Pope
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Virtual Box

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On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 11:16 +0000, Adam Trickett wrote:
> 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.
>


That's not true in my experience. I have Windows 95, 98, NT4WS, NT4S,
Win2K and XP pro running just fine under qemu/kqemu.

Cheers,
Al.