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Re: [LUG] Mark Shuttleworth interview

 

Jonathan Roberts wrote:
>> One day perhaps I'll get a machine that allows me to run fully virtual
>> Xen domains and then it's possible I'll give up on VMware.  Until then,
>> if people want to make my life easier by making sure VMware works in
>> whatever kernel I choose to use, I won't be standing in their way.  I
>> imagine there will be plenty of others who feel the same way.
>>
> I'm no virtualisation expert but do you not get pretty good
> performance from running Qemu with the Kqemu accelerator (which has
> just been gpl'd)? I've tried it on an old box with an athlon xp 1500
> and 512mb ram - running a live cd at least - and it ran just as fast
> as when I ran the livecd natively.

Haven't tried it.  Perhaps I'll have a go next time I have sufficient
time on my hands to do a windows install (assuming I can even find my
CDs).  Late 2009 by the looks of my "todo" list at the moment :)

James

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