Re: [Hampshire] Virtual Box

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Author: Adam Trickett
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Virtual Box

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On Sunday 11 Nov 2007, Alan Pope wrote:
> 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.


I believe you, they just doesn't work well for me! All are happy under plain
qemu, nothing but NT4 seems happy under kqemu...

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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced
    -- anon