Interesting article comparing virtualization options for Linux.
These are easy to use and should be included by default on most modern distributions.
http://linux.inet.hr/finally-user-friendly-virtualization-for-linux.html
KVM and Kqemu were able to benchmark within 80-85% of native system performance for using XP in a VM, which is pretty good and perfect for running XP in a VM on a modern system.
For example on how to use it you can use the Qemu-launcher gui.
Hardware Requirements:
Kqemu can accelerate qemu on any modern x86 proccessor.
For KVM you are required to have a proccessor that supports the new virtualization extensions, which for AMD means a AM2 socket CPUs and with Intel it's a bit harder. Any Pentium-D with 9x0 will work if you have the right motherboard. Also most Core Duo should work except for a few models.
At least 512 megs of ram.
It's pretty simple. Install the software and load up the kernel module. Make a directory your going to use the house the images.
Creating new drive images is aviable through the GUI and it's probably smart to the use QCOW format so you can make a drive 50gigs, but it will only use what is required to hold the image in terms of real desk space. So if it holds 5 gigs worth of data it will only use 5gigs.
You can save settings so that it's easy to restart images. Also you can run it in snapshot mode so that it won't save any changes, so you can test out questionable software or do bizzare things without having to waste your time recovering.
For increased video speed sometimes it's good to select "Standard VGA card with VESA Bochs extensions".
Also Qemu supports exporting a directory via SMB so that you can exchange files easily.
These are easy to use and should be included by default on most modern distributions.
http://linux.inet.hr/finally-user-friendly-virtualization-for-linux.html
KVM and Kqemu were able to benchmark within 80-85% of native system performance for using XP in a VM, which is pretty good and perfect for running XP in a VM on a modern system.
For example on how to use it you can use the Qemu-launcher gui.
Hardware Requirements:
Kqemu can accelerate qemu on any modern x86 proccessor.
For KVM you are required to have a proccessor that supports the new virtualization extensions, which for AMD means a AM2 socket CPUs and with Intel it's a bit harder. Any Pentium-D with 9x0 will work if you have the right motherboard. Also most Core Duo should work except for a few models.
At least 512 megs of ram.
It's pretty simple. Install the software and load up the kernel module. Make a directory your going to use the house the images.
Creating new drive images is aviable through the GUI and it's probably smart to the use QCOW format so you can make a drive 50gigs, but it will only use what is required to hold the image in terms of real desk space. So if it holds 5 gigs worth of data it will only use 5gigs.
You can save settings so that it's easy to restart images. Also you can run it in snapshot mode so that it won't save any changes, so you can test out questionable software or do bizzare things without having to waste your time recovering.
For increased video speed sometimes it's good to select "Standard VGA card with VESA Bochs extensions".
Also Qemu supports exporting a directory via SMB so that you can exchange files easily.
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