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Well, with qemu 0.7.0 out with it's kqemu module it's really quite decent at emulating things. Also, Frost has been getting slow and weird lately and I've been eyeing Janus as a replacement firewall. So I decided to move all my OS test bed work right onto Inferno, my desktop. It's actually pretty good. With the much faster cpu, even though everything is in emulation it's mostly faster than Janus in a lot of situations. And I'm learning lots about qemu and a few other things. Anyway, I've got win98, winxp, freedos, and reactos installed freshly. I was going with the Microsoft OS's and clones first because I was interested in getting starcraft working and my girlfriend wanted Keen. None of them quite worked well enough for Keen, so I installed dosbox, and it for the first time I've seen worked perfectly there. Also, starcraft seems to run at decent speeds in windows! The only catch, the networking doesn't fully work, but that's a configuration thing. I needed to learn about TUN device tunnelling so I put it off temporarily. Next up I noticed qemu does PPC emulation theoretically, so I decided to try and install ppc darwin because that would be cool. It failed, but not wanting to give up, I installed pearpc (a ppc emulator) and now have darwin installed under it. It's networking isn't as advanced as qemu's and it only supports the TUN method so in the process of getting Darwin up I've figured out a bit about how that works.
So I currently have Windows XP, Windows 98, ReactOS, FreeDos, and Darwin PPC installed and I'm just getting warmed up. I'm planning to put my harddrive space to good use and build a massive collection of operating systems.
On a slightly related note, learning Xnest is on my todo list since I'm uncomfortable running most FPS games on my desktop since they sometime crash taking my desktop with them. Normally I start a whole new XServer for them, but XNest might be just what I'm looking for.
Anyways, lots of play and work to do. The moral of the story, qemu rocks, and pearpc seems pretty cool.
[If this update was slightly incoherent it's because I'm coming down with a slight head cold.]
