Q emulator
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| Size: | 5.8 MB |
| Last Update: | 2008-01-18 04:41:14 |
| Version: | 0.9.0a89 |
| OS Support: | Mac OS X/Mac Universal Binary |
| License/Program Type: | Open Source |
| Publisher: | Mike Kronenberg |
| Price: | $0.00 |
Description:
Q emulator is an Open Source Virtual Machine software.
This piece of software, simply called Q by its producer, is a Cocoa
port of the Open Source CPU emulator, QEMU. QEMU is under
development and besides Mac OS X it also works on Linux, Windows
and BSD operating systems, where it has its roots.
You can run on your Mac the operating systems mentioned above, by
using this piece of software. The possibility to use a Virtual
Machine isn't limited to the installation of every operating
system. You can download from the Internet, QEMU virtual disks with
pre-configured operating systems.
A service that provides this kind of disk images is
http://www.oszoo.org/. Here you can find some virtual disk builds
that can be freely distributed. The usage of the operating systems
that can't be freely distributed usually is limited by the
obligation to buy a license for that product. For example, this
case matches the possibility to use a Microsoft operating system,
or a commercial Linux distribution.
The application's interface provides you the possibility to
customize how the emulation would work for your guest operating
system. For example, the 'Hardware' tab from the Virtual
Machine's 'Preferences' panel, gives you the possibility to
chose the CPU emulation type, the amount of RAM that would be
shared by the Virtual Machine and by the other virtual hardware
devices, like the video card, network interface card, USB hub, and
storage devices.
The 'Preferences' panel of the Virtual Machine gives you the
possibility to use a built-in firewall that blocks the incoming
traffic. In order to unblock the specific ports for the
applications that run inside this Virtual Machine, you need to
unblock them from here. Certain operating systems might come with
their own built in firewall. This firewall is not something that
can be turned off. Check the specific manuals for every installed
operating system in order to configure the network functionality
the proper way.
The 'Advanced' tab of the 'Preferences' panel of the Virtual
Machine provides you the possibility to attach multiple virtual
hard disks, which can be created with Q's utility that is
dedicated for disk image creation. Other options are specific to
the guest operating systems: Windows or Linux. The Linux specific
functionality gives you the possibility to use a Kernel image,
command lines, or an initial RAM Disk.
Q's 'Preferences' panel doesn't give you too many options. You
find there the 3D rendering API for the generic virtual graphic
card, such as OpenGL, Quartz, or QuickDraw, which is an option that
enables/disables the possibility to check for software updates at
startup, and the Q guest's folder location on your Macintosh Hard
Drive.
Pluses: it gives you the possibility to run various
operating systems inside a virtual machine on your Mac, unlike
other virtual machine emulators this is free, there are community
supported projects that provides you pre-defined QEMU virtual
hard-disks of the operating systems that can be freely distributed.
The application gives you the possibility to save the state of the
virtual PC, meaning that you don't have to boot up the guest OS at
every usage.
Drawbacks / flaws: this port is based on an alpha build so
you might get unexpected surprises, I couldn't use properly the
built in feature that downloads pre-defined operating systems
directly from OSZOO service because the application got stuck every
time after the download has finished.
In conclusion: if you would need to run various operating
systems on your Macintosh, without the need of repartitioning your
Macintosh hard disk, as well as without the need of rebooting your
Mac in order to start the other installed OS, this kind of
application is the answer. The fact that is available free is also
an advantage.
version reviewed: 0.8.2d52
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