From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CYtVz-00018b-Ql for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:56:59 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CYtVz-00018P-Dt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:56:59 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CYtVz-00018L-Bj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:56:59 -0500 Received: from [216.254.0.203] (helo=mail3.speakeasy.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CYtMR-0005XJ-9w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:47:07 -0500 Received: from dsl081-088-222.lax1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.111.2]) ([64.81.88.222]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Nov 2004 21:47:02 -0000 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] iemulator From: "John R. Hogerhuis" In-Reply-To: <255DFC56-4244-11D9-8EB4-000A959CB196@alum.mit.edu> References: <255DFC56-4244-11D9-8EB4-000A959CB196@alum.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1101764836.341.2369.camel@aragorn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:47:16 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: jhoger@pobox.com, 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 On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 12:20, Ronnie Misra wrote: > Maybe you guys have already seen this, but: > > > > From their FAQ: > > > Is iEmulator based on the BOCHS emulator? > > No! BOCHS is a fantastic, flexible effort, but we found it to be > > too slow to be "day-to-day usable" on the majority of hardware we > > tested with. In all of the tests we've tried, our solution, based on > > the powerful qemu codebase, runs significantly quicker! > > Ronnie > Another question is if they've advanced the sourcebase at all. Given that they are selling it for about $24, it would only cost that much for someone to become a customer and then ask for source to all GPLed portions of the codebase. But my guess is this is simply a front end to QEMU. Nice I guess that they mentioned QEMU somewhere on their site (the FAQ)... -- John.