“QEMU version 0.8.0 is out. New features include: support for ARM Integrator/CP board system emulation; support for MIPS R4K system emulation; initial SMP support on x86 (up to 255 CPUs); many new audio emulation features; initial USB support; new networking options for VLAN support between several QEMU instances.” The changelog is here, downloads are here.
Sadly, I can’t get Ubuntu (x86 or PPC) to work under the MacOS X port (Q) of QEMU. Anyone tyhat has had better luck than me?
The Fedora development version works fine for me
The Fedora development version works fine for me
From where did you find 0.8 (S)RPMs?
Gilboa
Yes finally! Being able to test your usb-keychain images from qemu makes life so much easier.
Hopefully they have improved performace running on PPC/OS X.
Like the previous poster, I too have had no luck running PPC software under PPC/OS X.
I’m assuming that if it supports more than one processor as well as dual core processors this will increase the average speed on dual core machines. Can anyone confirm this?
Could QEMU be used as part of a reverse-Rosetta project to run “Mac OSX on x86” binaries on Mac OSX on PPC, extending the useful lifespan of existing Apple Macs ?
I’m aware that this probably won’t become necessary for several years due to Universal Binaries, but that makes it a perfect time to start planning ahead
If I’m not mistaken (I read about this somewhere on the QEMU forums), the PPC emulator in QEMU only works with 2.4 kernels, sofar, and even then not always: this is really a big – and almost unacceptable – limitation.
Sadly, running the x86 version of, for example, Ubuntu via Q on OS X is so slow as to be practically unusable (except for learning purposes).
Q is a great program, anyway: on the level of Virtual PC from the interface point of view. It would be even better if it eventually got tabs, à la VMware…
I had problems running Ubuntu 5.10 on x86 too. (It was slow, and did not boot properly after the installation).
I guess we’ll have to wait for a few more relases.
Other than that qemu is a really nice piece of software.
A software engineer at IBM has come up with a way to construct and package a Linux® LiveCD so that it will install using the standard Microsoft® Windows® install process and will operate as a standard Windows screensaver:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-scrnsave/
It uses QEMU v0.7.2. Quite amazing.
Edited 2005-12-22 12:07
Does it compile with gcc 4 now?
No.
QEMU is great if you use the kernel module to increase it’s speed. With that, it’s near the performance of Xen.
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-accel.html
Although it is free as in beer, the module is closed source and under a proprietary license. If you really want to play with QEMU, you should try this module out.