From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FHP1g-0006Od-Rp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:34:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k29HUdFu020075; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:30:39 GMT Received: from citycable.ch (mail.alinto.citycable.ch [85.218.0.110]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k29HUaFA021476 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:30:36 GMT Received: (qmail 28067 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2006 17:18:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pygoscelis.shadok.ch) (tcoulon@citycable.ch@85.218.41.192) by smtp.alinto.citycable.ch with SMTP; 9 Mar 2006 17:18:46 -0000 From: Thierry de Coulon To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:30:35 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <5bdc1c8b0603071706p4b9ea8bay8b137d4f7f136f7e@mail.gmail.com> <200603091344.27194.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> <4410562C.8040601@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <4410562C.8040601@gmx.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603091830.35547.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> X-aduser: tcoulon@citycable.ch/85.218.41.192 X-Archives-Salt: 24237009-f2b1-46c2-9bb9-cccf071071ec X-Archives-Hash: 4dc0ce3f20fb0b288cf3ed406ca83ebb On Thursday 09 March 2006 17.22, Marco Matthies wrote: > You might also want to check out qemu[1], which is free and is in > portage -- the main difference is a somewhat more spartanic user interface. > > Just remember to use the kernel module kqemu as well for adequate speed > (somewhat less than vmware at the moment, but it is going to get to > vmware levels pretty soon). I haven't tried qemu on Gentoo yet - my previous testing (with or without kernel module) showed a dramatic lack of speed (at least when powering a virtual machine running Windows). I'm a supporter of open source, but there *are* closed source programs that perform better sometime (note that there also are closed source programs that perform worse...) But I'll keep an eye on quemu - that by the way I believe is free but not really open source, but maybe I'm mistaking. Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list