[geeks] Parallels/Solaris users, help this guy out

[Francois Dion]

On 10/2/07, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:
> >From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net>
> >Date: 2007/10/01 Mon PM 11:31:24 CDT
> >To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: [geeks] Parallels/Solaris users, help this guy out
>
> >http://blogs.sun.com/g11n/entry/solaris_users_on_parallels_mac
> >
> >I find blogs.sun.com to be interesting, so help this guy out :-)
>
> BTW, I just bought VMware Fusion at Amazon.com for $56, and there is a $20 rebate available, which took the price down to $36 shipped free, no taxes.
>
> Of course, the price is now $62 before rebate...
>
> Lionel

$0 for my VM software. I'm on Solaris x86, so no VMWare, but who
cares? I did a wget of qemu and kqemu archives from opensolaris,
untar, make all; make install for qemu and make all; make install64 on
kqemu (I'm on x64).

Start qemu-system-x86_64 if you are on 64 bit and guess what, windows
XP 32 bit installs and runs at native speed. Sweet!

If you search on opensolaris forum people say you cant run native
speed with kqemu on 64 bit systems unless using XP64, but that is not
true, as I've been able to do it.

Also, chown /dev/kqemu if you want your user to run qemu instead of root.

To get a feel for how close to native I was running:
Native (Solaris) Java I get 254Mflops on java linpack with 32 bit
client. windows XP on qemu+kqemu I get around 175Mflops (I think I got
180 under real XP - machine came preloaded with it, ran some tests and
blew away XP and installed Solaris Nevada, then U3 beta, then B54, B57
and now SXDE3)

Wthout kqemu I get 17 Mflops, so kqemu makes a huge difference. Of
course I get over twice the java linpack Mflops (a little over 600)
with /usr/jdk/jdk1.6.0_01/bin/amd64/java -server Linpack instead of
the 32 bit client, but I cant compare with windows XP 32 bit then.

Francois