From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0Pys-0000Wl-Sa for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:04:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0Pr3-0007kN-Lg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:56:37 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0Pqy-0007gM-U3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:56:24 -0500 Received: from [24.206.159.132] (helo=mx3.kw.tx.cebridge.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1D0PWU-0003Xz-BR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:35:14 -0500 Message-ID: <001c01c51203$24d2e510$254d21d1@computername> From: References: <200502121018.09039.jm@poure.com><20050213170136.GB28580@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org><001e01c511f3$1aae1ab0$254d21d1@computername> <20050213182734.GA29432@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Plex86 and Qemu Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:35:10 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org From: "Jim C. Brown" >> The reason I'm asking is that I use Windows, not Linux.=20 >=20 > I can tell by the length of lines in your email. ;) Yeah... Some Linux mail readers do seem to have problems with line = lengths. You'd think they'd fix it and add reasonable line wrapping, = but... Heck... even the old dial up BBS newsgroups (Fidonet etc.) in the = 80's and 90's had mail readers that could handle long lines and do line = wrapping... [shrug] >> Therefor Fabrice's new module is useless to me. Nice idea etc., but = utterly useless to me. >=20 > Mine will be too, unless someone ports plex86 to Windows. Plex86 v2 is still limited to running only *modified* linux kernals. So even for those who just want to run a copy of Linux aren't really = going to be helped. No Knoppix or any other Live! emergency boot cd. = No experimenting with other distro's, etc. >> Plex86 v2 is also Linux only, and requires patched guest kernels. >=20 > My idea is to use the module in cosimulation. This would not require a = patch > guest kernel and would allow for any guest OS to be used, not just = linux. I'm not quite sure I follow... I'm not quite sure how you are going to do that. =20 >> Anyway, the point I'm making (and asking about) is that >> the majority of potential users are either going to run Windows >> as the guest, or as the host.. (And possibly both.) >=20 > Mine will support using Windows as guest, but not as host. Then that's still going to be extremely limited. Effecting probably = 95%+ of the potential users. =20 >> So... is your idea going to be helpful to the majority of potential = users? >>=20 >=20 > Yes. It will let linux2.4 users run Windows and Windows apps. I wouldn't call that "majority of potential users"... Maybe "many in = this mailing list", but that's not quite the same thing. [grimace] Oh well. =20