Qemu, Windows and DSL-2024? Yesss.....

[meo]

Got an epiphany today! Can't understand why it didn't occur to me before. Well, as the saying goes here in Sweden: Better late than never! It was about to use Qemu in Windows to run DSL-2024. This is my first experience using Qemu. I thought it would be quite easy. But, man was I wrong! First the installation (a walk in the park since it was an .exe file), setting the PATH variable was anything but easy and then making Qemu boot DSL-2024 (the final step but it could really make a first time user of Qemu go insane). Well, making a long story short. The first time I ended up with a monochrome wallpaper and a 1024x800 resolution. I noticed why almost immediately. The system was running on 111 MB of RAM. It's amazing that anything at all showed up. I just didn't know how to allocate memory. After consulting mr Google quite a few times I got a wallpaper in color and 1280x800 in resolution. But it was almost impossible to use. Finally (what I'm posting from) I got the native resolution of the screen 1920x1080 and all in full color. There is a but though, (well several actually) it took about 10 minutes to boot, an hour to upgrade and is the slowest system I've ever used. I have to mention the silver lining though, the GUI is just awesome and it's a pleasure to see how Firefox looks even if it's incredible slow. Since it took the whole day to get to this point I have a hard time shutting it down and restart with more memory allocated. Have to work out how to get the GUI to get faster. I'm open to any suggestion how to speed things up.

// meo

[meo]

Got an epiphany today! Can't understand why it didn't occur to me before. Well, as the saying goes here in Sweden: Better late than never! It was about to use Qemu in Windows to run DSL-2024. This is my first experience using Qemu. I thought it would be quite easy. But, man was I wrong! First the installation (a walk in the park since it was an .exe file), setting the PATH variable was anything but easy and then making Qemu boot DSL-2024 (the final step but it could really make a first time user of Qemu go insane). Well, making a long story short. The first time I ended up with a monochrome wallpaper and a 1024x800 resolution. I noticed why almost immediately. The system was running on 111 MB of RAM. It's amazing that anything at all showed up. I just didn't know how to allocate memory. After consulting mr Google quite a few times I got a wallpaper in color and 1280x800 in resolution. But it was almost impossible to use. Finally (what I'm posting from) I got the native resolution of the screen 1920x1080 and all in full color. There is a but though, (well several actually) it took about 10 minutes to boot, an hour to upgrade and is the slowest system I've ever used. I have to mention the silver lining though, the GUI is just awesome and it's a pleasure to see how Firefox looks even if it's incredible slow. Since it took the whole day to get to this point I have a hard time shutting it down and restart with more memory allocated. Have to work out how to get the GUI to get faster. I'm open to any suggestion how to speed things up.

// meo

Well, guys I'm still kind of mesmerized. That's what I call an EPIPHANY! I just found out how to make a virtual disk and howto install an OS on it. Can you guess which OS I chose? Using it now. DSL-2024 just went from the slowest OS I've used to one of the fastest. I just copied 2 commands from the internet. The first to make a virtual disk using Qemu and the second how to install an OS on that very disk. I just have 512 MB of RAM but DSL-2024 right now is like a greased lightning. Superfast! It's just amazing!!!

// meo

[doug]

Got an epiphany today! Can't understand why it didn't occur to me before. Well, as the saying goes here in Sweden: Better late than never! It was about to use Qemu in Windows to run DSL-2024. This is my first experience using Qemu. I thought it would be quite easy. But, man was I wrong! First the installation (a walk in the park since it was an .exe file), setting the PATH variable was anything but easy and then making Qemu boot DSL-2024 (the final step but it could really make a first time user of Qemu go insane). Well, making a long story short. The first time I ended up with a monochrome wallpaper and a 1024x800 resolution. I noticed why almost immediately. The system was running on 111 MB of RAM. It's amazing that anything at all showed up. I just didn't know how to allocate memory. After consulting mr Google quite a few times I got a wallpaper in color and 1280x800 in resolution. But it was almost impossible to use. Finally (what I'm posting from) I got the native resolution of the screen 1920x1080 and all in full color. There is a but though, (well several actually) it took about 10 minutes to boot, an hour to upgrade and is the slowest system I've ever used. I have to mention the silver lining though, the GUI is just awesome and it's a pleasure to see how Firefox looks even if it's incredible slow. Since it took the whole day to get to this point I have a hard time shutting it down and restart with more memory allocated. Have to work out how to get the GUI to get faster. I'm open to any suggestion how to speed things up.

// meo

Well, guys I'm still kind of mesmerized. That's what I call an EPIPHANY! I just found out how to make a virtual disk and howto install an OS on it. Can you guess which OS I chose? Using it now. DSL-2024 just went from the slowest OS I've used to one of the fastest. I just copied 2 commands from the internet. The first to make a virtual disk using Qemu and the second how to install an OS on that very disk. I just have 512 MB of RAM but DSL-2024 right now is like a greased lightning. Superfast! It's just amazing!!!

// meo

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Wy not install Qemu in Damn Small Linux and run windows from it? I do it with Sparky and I think DSL has a smaller footprint than Sparky linux, correct me if I am wrong.

[BG405]

Why not install Qemu in Damn Small Linux and run windows from it?

To be honest, it's one of the only ways I'd run Windows .. .. in a VM of some sort. For my case, VirtualBox, only to see what's going on with that OS these days or for possible tech support ..

[meo]

Thanks for your input doug! Would be great if this Linux hating computer would run DSL. I bought it 4+ years something ago from Dell. What I didn't know is that it seems impossible to install any Linux distro and make a dual boot setup. I've tried many times. Allocating free space on the SSD but to no avail. It just doesn't work. Some of the newer Linux distros I can run from an usb drive and that works pretty good. But install no way. Another thing is that I use a multilingual database that is only supported by Windows. So it's like a catch 22 situation: Whatever I choose it won't be perfect! Sometimes you can't have both. I had some success with Wine installing the actual database but it wasn't a good solution. That was like 20 years ago or so. At present it might go smoother. Anyway the situation is what it is. I had a lot of fun with the 50 MB DSL around that time and I try to get DSL-2024 to work now on this Linux hating computer! Have fun with DSL doug!

// meo