Re: QEMU
From: Michael Paine (mpaine_at_tpgi.com.au)
Date: 11/22/04
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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:20:34 +1100
Mike
Thanks for that detailed response. I expect I will stick with VPC for
Windows apps but your advice may help me fiddle with Dosbox within OS X
(to run an old Dos program).
Michael Paine
Michael Koenig wrote:
> Michael Paine wrote:
>
>>Has anyone had experience with OpenOSX?
>> http://www.openosx.com/wintel/
>
>
> I haven't used it but it's basically just an optimized version of Bochs
> with a different frontend:
> http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
>
> The last time I tried Bochs on my 2GHz G5 it was so horribly slow that
> the installation of Win98 took several hours, and it was even slower
> than on my 550MHz Pentium 3 under BeOS, despite the fact that Bochs is
> an interpretive emulator without dynamic recompilation or virtualization.
>
>
>>Seems to be an alternative to VPC
>
>
> If you want an alternative to VPC I'd recommend QEMU. It uses a more
> portable form of binary translation, which makes it slower than VPC, but
> still miles faster than Bochs.
> <http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/>
>
> If you want to make your own build of the current version (I think there
> is no binary package for OSX yet), you'll need to build SDL first
> (because the OSX build only works for Xcode not with make), of course
> you are required to have the free Apple developer tools installed:
> 1. Download the SDL source:
> http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.7.tar.gz
> 2. Extract it and change to the directory in the Terminal.
> 3. Type: ./configure
> 4. Type: make
> 5. Type: sudo make install
> (This will ask you for the administrator password.)
>
> Building the current QEMU is quite similar:
> 1. Download the QEMU source:
> http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-0.6.1.tar.gz
> 2. Extract the archive and change to the new directory in the Terminal.
> 3. Type: ./configure --target-list=i386-softmmu
> 4. Type: make
> 5. Type: sudo make install
> (This will ask for the administrator password again.)
>
> You might have to log off and log on again before you can use the 'qemu'
> command from the Terminal.
>
> To install an operating system you need an empty disk image and an image
> of the CD-ROM.
>
> You can create a disk image in the Terminal like this (in this case a
> 512MB image called PCHD.img):
> dd of=PCHD.img bs=1024 seek=524288 count=0
>
> To create an image from the CD-ROM (eg. Win98) you'll need to unmount
> the CD using Disk Utility (in Applications/Utilities). While you're in
> Disk Utility also take a look at the information about the CD in the
> context menu and copy the Disk Identifier.
> Once you know the identifier, you can enter the following in the Termial
> (where Win98.img will be the name of the image file and disk3s0 is the
> identifier):
> dd of=Win98.img if=/dev/disk3s0
>
> If you've completed all these steps, you can now launch QEMU for the
> terminal to install the OS by telling it which hard disk image (-hda)
> and which CD-ROM image (-cdrom) to use and where to boot from (-boot d):
> qemu -fda PCHD.img -cdrom Win98.img -boot d
>
> When the OS installed you can boot without the CD-ROM image:
> qemu -fda PCHD.img
>
> I've noticed that Win95 is much faster on QEMU than Win98, but in this
> case you'll also need the image of a boot floppy (-fda floppy.img -boot
> a) because Win95 CD-ROMs aren't bootable unlike Win98 or newer ones.
>
> I also managed to install and run QNX (not that fast but usable),
> ReactOS (a bit slow and not that practical), and FreeDOS (quite fast). I
> ran Linux from a Live CD image, but it was horribly slow once it entered
> KDE. Unfortunately BeOS doesn't boot correctly.
>
> If you run Win9x or DOS you should use a tool to let the CPU idle,
> because otherwise QEMU will eat lots of processor time even if you don't
> do anything in the emulated system.
>
> QEMU certainly isn't nearly as fast as VPC (it reports a 33MHz Pentium
> Pro, but should be a little bit faster on my 2GHz G5), but if you don't
> need too much speed it's worth a look, and definately faster than Bochs.
>
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