Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu speed vs vmplayer?

[Lonnie Mendez <lmendez19@austin.rr.com>]

On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 23:37 -0500, it@tidetamerboatlifts.com wrote:
> Yeah, I said "I think" because I wanted to use a decent benchmark to
> actually test the results.  I threw in a test against VMPlayer as well.  I
> found that with USB tablet emulation, Qemu was approximately only half as
> fast as it could operate without it.  I did NOT perform these tests
> without KQEMU for two reasons 1) the *concept* that USB tablet emulation
> slows down Qemu can be shown either way and 2) I can't stand waiting
> around for hours and hours while Qemu translates code, sorry.  At this
> particular time, I'm really only interested in this particular case
> because I use it for production use and many non-developer users are
> wanting to do the same thing.  The only major difference that I found
> between Qemu+KQEMU and VMPlayer was that VMPlayer is about 4x faster when
> it comes to memory access.  You can view my results at:
> 
> http://www.calcmaster.net/qemu/benchmarks-20061216/

Two things:

1.  http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/player.html
    (Restrictions - Section 3.3 - "You may use the Software to ...")

2.  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-07/msg00360.html