From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 19 08:21:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D811C16A417 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:21:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8932B13C44B for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:21:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JRNjN-0002v5-T6 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:21:37 +0000 Received: from cairn.ints.net ([194.44.58.121]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:21:37 +0000 Received: from c.kworr by cairn.ints.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:21:37 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Volodymyr Kostyrko Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:21:26 +0200 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <8327AD78-3C25-4E5C-80C5-183436A286AB@tca-cable-connector.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cairn.ints.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; ru-RU; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20080123 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 In-Reply-To: <8327AD78-3C25-4E5C-80C5-183436A286AB@tca-cable-connector.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: QEMU Windows and X forwarding X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:21:44 -0000 David Schulz wrote: > Hello, > > my Goal is to setup a FreeBSD Server that hosts about 5 Images of > (licensed) Windows XP, which i made either using QEMU or Win4BSD. Those > Images then i want to make accessible to old Macintosh PowerPC Machines, > so the Users can access one or two Applications that only run under > Windows XP. I would like to know from anyone in a similar situation how > to accomplish this best. > > Currently, I pretty much have it setup for myself, so when i open X11 on > my PowerPC Machine, and type in ssh -X server_address windows_xp , i do > get an instance of Windows XP on my PowerPC Machine. > > The trouble here for now is server and network performance. I would like > to know if anyone of you has any suggestions for me on how i can make > the network load as little as possible. I read that freenx is offering > really good responsiveness, but unfortunately it is marked as broken on > my System using FreeBSD Version 6.3. I'm using net/rdesktop for that. It's native to win, easy to setup, easy to work. qemu bla-bla-bla -redir tcp:3389::3389 -nographic You can use different outside ports for different virtual machines. -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow.