Q for Mac

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• Excellent

  Phoenix DownUnderApril 2, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This is brilliant stuff. I have tried Bochs before without success. VirtualPC is a nightmare BUT this, on the surface looks good. It responds well, IT'S FAST. Had no trouble created a Windoze 4Gb disk image. I didn't keep the Q executables on the drive (probably a mistake!!) but formatted (format /s) the drive using a Windoze98(!!) install disk and proceeded to install. It is going well. Use AppleTab to move your mouse in and out. Currently experimenting on a G5DP with several TB of disk... good for experiments... Will report back wrt USB and Firewire. Q is very easy to use. At this stage I have got further with Win98 on the G5 than ever before. Love to try "Hasta la Vista" Installation process taking about the same time as a recent AMDAthlon 3200 to install (a legal copy of) XP. Going to try SuSE Linux 10 next. We need Windows running for hardware (PICAXE) development software that alas only runs on a pc. &lt;delay&gt; OK... nearly there. It hung and died on detecting the hardware. Still better than before. Will continue and report back. Uses 99.5-100% of processor... mouse and keyboard still OK however.

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• Awsome!

  IhateWindowsOctober 18, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Ok, there are still some glitchs but for the *price* it's awsome. I have used bochs and virtual PC 5 and this is the one I'm using now! It works on a G3, G4 and dual G5 with Tiger. The speed for me is on *par* with Virtual PC and leaves bochs in the dust (still bochs is cool, but unusable even on a dual G5). To make it work, you just have to create, with "disk utility" or toast, an image of the cd containing the os, linux or windozzzzze. Then you start QEMUX and don't fiddle too much with the options, accept to creat a 2 gig hard disk image (it will not start as a 2gig image, but it could grow to that) and change the option to boot from the CD-ROM drive. At this point the hard disk image is created and you can try to start the OS installation. For me it did not work but that's ok, I exited the installer and was on a prompt. I formated the C drive (format c:) and then restarted the emultator. From there *everything* worked! Ok, to share a drive between MAC OS X and the guest os was a bit odd, I had to map the E: drive to \\\\10.0.2.4\\QEMU (it is documented on the internet, google is your friend). GREATE WORK, saved me a lot of $$$ that I did not have to give *AGAIN* to microsoft to update my virtual PC!!!

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• Doesn't recognize CD Drive

  Harald G.June 16, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This bug is apparently not yet fixed! Useless.

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• It takes forever to write a virtual HD...and fails!

  slc1967February 16, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />It just keep trying to write a virtual HD and never ends the job, i.e. unusable (Selected installing OS from CD). iMac G5, 10.3.8

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