Hello

I have always used computers for virtualization witout any problems. Untill I bought my last computer. It just came with a cheap Intel T4400 dual core, witout any hardware emulation. That means It is PAINFULLY slow, even emulating a PI, 32mb RAM with windows 95 (more than 5 min just to boot up), and I have to emulate a machine with windows xp...


I alredy tried Qemu, and Vmware. I seem to love Quemu, but is the one who is working me the worse. I know there is something called "Xen", but i just don't know what he hell a "Virtualization hipervisor" is, I just want to emulate a windows xp box to do some tests. Can i do it without having to do 30 min bootups, no depending on hardware virtualization?

No, the performance comes from the hardware assist. Think of it like a GPU for graphics; without the hardware to perform the function, everything has to be done slowly in software. If running VMs is a requirement for you, you need to get a machine with the proper hardware.

I've got one of those de-tuned Intel chips in a laptop (darn their hides for that kind of stuff) but I run VirtualBox on it with XP installed and XP works as well as it ever can on that machine. Do have to throw some RAM at it (the box has 8G, I allocated 2G to XP; you can select how much RAM to allocate to a virtual machine with VirtualBox).

Dunno, might be worth download?

Hope this helps some.

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Well, I don't like a bit VirtualBox, as it lacks tons of options that Qemu has (and it just smells like propietary software), but the idea is getting xp working, and I know qemu won't do it. Weird, as older processors worked just fine for me (Flashbock sequence back to 2005-2006, with 866 mhz and 1G RAM, and no problems with a virtual Windows 95), I have 4GB Ram, so using 2GB for a Virtual machine is affordable .

Virtualbox has other issues. Use it at your own risk. You can corrupt data on the host with it.

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