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

[James Sumners]

Just ignore it.


On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:47:42 -0500, Courtney Thomas
<ccthomas at joimail.com> wrote:
> 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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