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QtEmu is an opensource application that uses Qemu and KVM to run virtual machines...

http://qtemu.org/



What do you guys make of this?
 
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It is -possible- but painfully slow in practice.
 

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Interesting. However, I don't think it would run WIndows 7 very well.
Perhaps it is worth to try an older version (98 or XP?), but it wil be slow to boot, and slow to do anything.

However if it isn't too sluggish after boot, it may be useful for some scenarios. (Such as using MS Office and such.)
 
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how about running another light Linux version VM that could in turn run wine, hence run all sorts of windows apps...

here is a list of apps (expand categories) that wine can run:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...e+Applications
 
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How about running native wine with patched user-qemu for running the native win32 executable ONLY, which is the only sane way to handle this, instead of the entire OS?

(and of course instead of daydreaming over a GUI to components that are already on the N900 ... ).

The last time I looked at it, patches for ARM Winelib support were being already merged in. I'm pretty sure that by now Wine compiles for ARM.

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Originally Posted by Venemo View Post
Interesting. However, I don't think it would run WIndows 7 very well.
Perhaps it is worth to try an older version (98 or XP?), but it wil be slow to boot, and slow to do anything.

However if it isn't too sluggish after boot, it may be useful for some scenarios. (Such as using MS Office and such.)
"KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V)."

Even if there were Virtualization extensions on ARM, how many Windows 32 ARM applications do you know?

And Qemu without KVM would be almost like running Bochs...
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Originally Posted by javispedro View Post
How about running native wine with patched user-qemu for running the native win32 executable ONLY, which is the only sane way to handle this, instead of the entire OS?
So something along the lines of Apple's Rosetta, only for ARM Linux instead of x86 OS X? I like it.
 
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
So something along the lines of Apple's Rosetta, only for ARM Linux instead of x86 OS X? I like it.
Or like the older Darwine.
 
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how about vmware???

see this http://www.rockinmaemo.dk/?p=57
& this
http://www.slashgear.com/nokia-n800-...-demo-2635750/

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there are efforts to cross execute x86 on N900, with limited success

for some people, the objective is wine+qemu

in example, see this thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=43480

there are other threads, too
 
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