[ale] Qemu experiences (or.....wow!)

[Courtney Thomas]

Trey,

I see you are running FreeBSD-5.3. I am running 4.3 and trying to 
upgrade but my old motherboard has an old BIOS that won't 'see' my large 
HD, so....I need to upgrade the BIOS so I can install 5.3. To do this I 
need to run some MS Win utilities to burn the new ROM and for that need 
to install Qemu on 4.3   :-)

When I try to ./configure Qemu [on 4.3] I get....

"cannot compile statically with SDL - qemu-fast won't have a graphical 
output"

What's wrong and how do I fix it ? [what's SDL ?]

Appreciatively,

Courtney



Trey Sizemore wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:23:39 -0500 (EST)
> "John Wells" <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Guys,
>>
>>Finally have a moment to catch my breath and provide further 
>>information on my experience with qemu 
>>(http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/).
>>
>>The subject line really says it all...wow!  After compiling the cvs
>>version and installing the accelerator module, things have worked
>>brilliantly.  So far, I've installed Windows XP and FreeBSD.  Both
>>installs went more or less flawlessly...very nice.
>>
>>Performance is very good with the accelerator module...very, very 
>>usable. It's just a tad slower than Win4Lin 5, although likely this 
>>is due to WinXP vs. Win98 more than anything else.  It's definitely 
>>on par with VMWare/WinXP.
>>
>>I'd recommend you give it a shot if you're interested in having a free
>>alternative to VMWare.
>>
>>As a side note, the new Win4Lin Pro product that adds Windows XP 
>>support is actually built on top of Qemu.
>>
>>Have fun. Let me know if you have any questions.
>>
>>John
>>
>>
> 
> I just installed this and want to give it a whirl.  Does it work like 
> VMWare in that I can install Win2000 virtually and run from this 
> machine?  If so, just a pointer or two on starting this up.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 


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