Daemon Dancing in the Dark: Emulator schmemulators

February 02, 2006

Emulator schmemulators

When I get my computer upgrade, I'm going to install an emulator on it. I've used and enjoyed the heck out of vmware, but it is too expensive for my dilettante tastes. So I've been casting about for a freeware alternative and keep hearing about qemu. So I'll probably try this one first.

And on the freebsd.questions list, someone asked about getting kqemu to work with it. I guess kqemu is a kernel patch or something that makes qemu run faster and jump higher. The trick is to build qemu with a Makefile define so that it pulls in the kqemu port as well. This once again points out the usefulness of reading the makefile before building a port. The exact command is: