Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:50:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: andrewlylegould@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Win4BSD -- any comments or experiences? Message-ID: <200904242050.n3OKo3NK014516@triton.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <d356c5630904240925y25a2ec11m429e57001880c073@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090424151827.GA13967@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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In article <d356c5630904240925y25a2ec11m429e57001880c073@mail.gmail.com> you write: >On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in Spanish, I've got a pointer to >> this software: >> >> http://win4bsd.com/wp/win4bsd-free-for-non-commercial-use/ >> >> Any comments about or test results in compare with Qemu? >> Thx >> >> matthias >> -- >> Matthias Apitz >> Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH >> Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany >> t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 >> e <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> - w http://www.oclc.org/ >> http://www.UnixArea.de/ >> People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use >> FreeBSD. >> _______________________________________________ >> <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > >I played with win4bsd for awhile. It works well for normal desktop usage. >Unfortunately, virtual os setups do not handle complex data analysis of >extremely large data sets well. I think it has to do with memory >usage/management. Otherwise, I liked win4bsd a lot. Well I haven't actually tried win4bsd, only researched about it one the web a little once and noticed it seems to be based on an old version of qemu (it still uses kqemu 1.3.* not 1.4.* like current qemu - which btw is the only reason I haven't removed the old kqemu from ports and renamed the new one, i.e. emulators/kqemu-kmod still is the old one.) Now does that mean current qemu is better/more stable than win4bsd if all you want is emulate something like xp? I don't know... (Maybe the win4bsd folks have incorporated other fixes that aren't in qemu yet? At least they certainly seem to have added features...) Cheers, Juergen
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