Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-07-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Scott Gifford wrote: Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] I noticed that on her machine, QEMU does not eat lots of CPU, while on my machine, it eats the machine. I've copied the exact raw image disc from her machine to mine, but QEMU eats my CPU. Perhaps it's a difference in proc

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-07-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 00:59 -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > I noticed that on her machine, QEMU does not eat lots of CPU, while > > on my machine, it eats the machine. I've copied the exact raw image > > disc from her machine to mine, but QEM

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-07-01 Thread Scott Gifford
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I noticed that on her machine, QEMU does not eat lots of CPU, while > on my machine, it eats the machine. I've copied the exact raw image > disc from her machine to mine, but QEMU eats my CPU. Perhaps it's a difference in processor features. Newe

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-27 Thread Chris Lale
Mike McCarty wrote: [...] > I haven't been able to build kqemu. It has include path problems. > > [snip] > >> Alternatively, install Daniel Baumann's deb package [2] instead of the >> official >> QEMU package. kqemu is available in Etch. Install kqemu-common and kqemu-modules-2.6-486 (or whateve

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-27 Thread Chris Lale
Paul Johnson wrote: > Chris Lale wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to > gmane.linux.debian.user: > >> [2] http://archive.daniel-baumann.ch/debian/packages-other/qemu/ > > Browsing through the tree, I can't figure out how to make a sources.list > line from this... hing please? > I just

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-26 Thread Paul Johnson
Chris Lale wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > [2] http://archive.daniel-baumann.ch/debian/packages-other/qemu/ Browsing through the tree, I can't figure out how to make a sources.list line from this... hing please? -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Goog

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Chris Lale wrote: 1. QEMU is slow. Yes, and it's a CPU hog. But, it's faster than BOCHS. 2. If you install kqemu, QEMU will run faster. Make sure to "modprobe kqemu major=0" first. QEMU will use kqemu automatically if it is installed. Run QEMU from a terminal window and you will get a messa

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-26 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 26 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2. If you install kqemu, QEMU will run faster. Make sure to "modprobe kqemu > major=0" first. QEMU will use kqemu automatically if it is installed. Run > QEMU from a terminal window and you will get a message if it is unable to > find kqemu. I ne

Re: [Now really OT]Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >[mike wrote] Andrew J. Barr wrote: kqemu allows code to be executed directly and natively on the bare-metal processor under certain conditions. This takes QEMU's dynamic translation engine out of the picture and allows for near-native performance of x86-on-x86 (32

[Now really OT]Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrew J. Barr wrote: >> >> kqemu allows code to be executed directly and natively on the >> bare-metal processor under certain conditions. This takes QEMU's >> dynamic translation engine out of the picture and allows for >> near-

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew J. Barr wrote: kqemu allows code to be executed directly and natively on the bare-metal processor under certain conditions. This takes QEMU's dynamic translation engine out of the picture and allows for near-native performance of x86-on-x86 (32 or 64 bit) situations. It turns kqemu into

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that kqemu reduces processor load. This may be the reason > for your different experience. kqemu allows code to be executed directly and natively on the bare-metal processor under certain conditions. This takes QEMU's dynamic translation engine ou

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Chris Lale
Mike McCarty wrote: > This question is really Really REALLY off topic! > > I administer my girl friend's Debian machine for her, but do > not run Debian myself. I installed QEMU on my machine (Fedora > Core) from source, and installed the Debian release on hers. > She's pretty happy now running so

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:25:27PM -0400, Matthew K Poer wrote: > Perhaps, if you enabled non-free software on her computer, kqemu is > installed? > it is a processor accelerator for qemu, but it is not DFSG-compliant, so it > is in the non-free repo. > I agree this is probably it. kqemu makes

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps, if you enabled non-free software on her computer, kqemu is > installed? it is a processor accelerator for qemu, but it is not > DFSG-compliant, so it is in the non-free repo. kqemu is free software as of a few months ago. -- Andrew J. Barr W

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Matthew. Matthew K Poer, 25.06.2007 18:25: > Perhaps, if you enabled non-free software on her computer, kqemu is > installed? > it is a processor accelerator for qemu, but it is not DFSG-compliant, so it > is in the non-free repo. Not anymore. It’s licensed unter GPL since February. Regar

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Matthew K Poer
Perhaps, if you enabled non-free software on her computer, kqemu is installed? it is a processor accelerator for qemu, but it is not DFSG-compliant, so it is in the non-free repo. On Monday 25 June 2007 12:17 pm, Mike McCarty wrote: > This question is really Really REALLY off topic! > > I admini

OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Mike McCarty
This question is really Really REALLY off topic! I administer my girl friend's Debian machine for her, but do not run Debian myself. I installed QEMU on my machine (Fedora Core) from source, and installed the Debian release on hers. She's pretty happy now running some stuff. But I noticed that on