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Old 21st April 2018
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QEMU installation is not as difficult as I had read ---snip---
Installing QEMU, is the easy part, but setting up and configuring the VM, for a particular OS can get some what more complicated, my first one was for FreeDos, that was not very complicated, then
the next one was for Debian 7, also not real complicated, but for windowsXP, it got a little more complicated, for example, when I used the raw format, like I had done with both Free Dos, and linux,
the windowsXP installer, did not like that, and could not install, so when I read the tutorial, it mentioned to use "qcow2", and it installed ok,... however as you can see, in this thread, I was not able to mount the image, as a "VND" device, or a vnode, ... the solution turned out pretty simple, I was able to convert it, like jggimi suggested,... Being able to mount the image as a vnd device it important, so that one can access, add files, or even programs, etc,....
If you start to try, and have problems, then post the details, I am sure some one will know how to proceed,... I am just starting to learn about this, one thing I have not figured out is how to set it up so that it has more memory (cpu), and to run the programs you want you will need a lot more the just the
500 or 600 mb , I use.
My computer would not be able to handle windows 7 on a VM, with Microsoft Office and AutoCAD R14. on it.
When I bought it (the computer) it did have windows 7, but just barely could run it, it was really slow, with OpenBsd it is very efficient,... but of course any VM is still going to be limited to what the hosts capacity is,..quote again
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Although VMs execute independently of each other and the host, they do
consume host resources and, as such, the number of VMs (and their
configurations) should be taken into consideration when planning guest
capacity.
I just noticed, I think they made a typo, "when planning host capacity", should be "guest capacity".
That is to say, my PC has 2gb ram , max. Obviously if I set up a VM, that has programs that use more then that, it either would not work, or be very slow, poor performance.
Debian 9, Windows 7, Gnome, and all the inefficient memory Ram hogs, do not perform well on this PC, and would be even worse on a VM,... sorry to go off topic, but that leads to a big reason I choose OpenBsd, after Debian and Linux started going down hill. OpenBsd is very efficient and runs/performs well on it.
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