Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:45:06 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: jackbarnett@gmail.com Cc: Robert Eckardt <rol@robert-eckardt.de>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, Freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: VM Options Message-ID: <4798F8D2.6030105@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <47985BEA.60805@gmail.com> References: <4797917B.4020600@gmail.com> <20080123142316.2d3ef433.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20080123213211.M8757@Robert-Eckardt.de> <47985BEA.60805@gmail.com>
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Jack Barnett wrote: > > Robert Eckardt wrote: >> It depends on what you want to do. > > To clarify, I would like to run Windows XP at least > > VMWare runs WinXP beautifully - but unfortunately VMWare doesn't well > under FreeBSD. > Last time I tried Qemu it was fairly slow. > > So Jail, Qemu and VMWare crossed off the list, any other options? While Qemu is normally slow, there was a SoC project to add KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) support to FreeBSD - it uses the virtualization features built in to modern Intel and AMD CPUs. It speeds things up substantially. For more information go to http://feanor.sssup.it/~fabio/freebsd/lkvm/ If that doesn't work then you could also try emulators/kqemu-kmod/ - while it doesn't take advantage of the VT or SVM features in modern CPUs, it allows Qemu to run a lot of code natively and so speeds things up quite a bit. -- Bruce
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