Hi, I've tested out Q for OS X, v0.8.2d52: http://www.kju-app.org/kju/As far as I know this version doesn't yet take advantage of Intel virtualization like Parallels and Vmware do.
Anyways, it stacked up pretty well against Parallels, with an avg. boot time of 22 seconds!
I'm not sure this is the best measure for benchmarking/performance though (maybe someone has a better idea or set of tools I could use). I've noticed with other operating systems, Qemu is very fast at booting, but lags in drawing frames and windows, and processing heavy tasks. So even though Q boots faster than Parallels, it feels much more sluggish than Parallels.
Karl
From: "Gustavo grieco" <gustavo.grieco@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [openbeos] Re: Boot time benchmark Vmware vs. Parallels Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:47:08 -0300 Haiku isnt working with kQEMU (at least, in kernel mode in Linux) 2006/12/13, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>:On 12/13/06, Ben Allen <ben.allen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 12/13/06, Ryan Leavengood < leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 12/13/06, Karl vom Dorff <haikubounties@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > There seems to be quite a difference in performance, with Vmware booting> > > nearly 3x as fast, and as I mentioned before, it generally feels much> > > snappier than emulation in Parallels. > >> > Would it be possible to add QEMU to that round-up? It seems MUCH, MUCH> > slower in my testing, which is too bad since it is the main > > open-source offering in virtual machines... > > > > Of course it could just be the BeOS version which is so slow... > > > > Ryan > > > > > I haven't done any timing measurements, but the Windows version of QEMU was much slower than Vmware for me (I'd estimate that it was about as relatively slow as Karl reported Parallels to be). Of course, don't even get me started on Bochs..... > > -Ben > > Don't forget to try kQEMU also - it does make a huge difference on Windows for me - unfortunately it's not open source :( But it's still not as fast as VMWare.
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