[afnog] Some cool bits and pieces

[Kenneth Kabagambe]

Yes.I have actually installed Windows XP in Ubuntu. And also installed 
FreeBSD inside Windows XP.
The nag with qemu was getting it to connect to the internet, and well, 
it isnt as fast as VmWare.
There are a number of qemu images online at 
http://free.oszoo.org/download.html
I would recommend it for teaching as it is light on resources, and still 
gives you the basic functions as vmware

Brian Candler wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:13:04PM +0100, Phil Regnauld wrote:
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>>>(5) VMware Player
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>>	I've been using QEMU for over a year now -- the Kernel Acceleration
>>	module (so native instructions can be executed directly, just like
>>	vmware) is not open source, but the rest is -- GPL.  Runs fine
>>	on FreeBSD and Linux, AND it has AMD64 and PPC emulation as well,
>>	so I can test new versions of SuSE/amd64 and FreeBSD/amd64 once in a
>>	while.
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>>	http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
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>Hmm.. that lets you run Windows under Unix, but does it let you run Unix
>under Windows? I can't see any Windows version for download there.
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>If you just want an emulator that runs on Unix then there are a number of
>other options. Xen is pretty cool; you can dynamically transfer a
>*running* image from one machine to another, with downtime of just a few
>hundred milliseconds. Main limitation is that you must run a customised
>version of the hosted O/S to be able to talk to Xen's device drivers.
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>However, it would be quite possible to run a workshop with one Xen server
>running a dozen FreeBSD hosts, and have people ssh and/or VNC into their own
>virtual machine from Windows.
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>Cheers,
>
>Brian.
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