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WinOS+QEMU+Knoppix 3.8 = WinKnoppix!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-klaus-you-hypnotize-me dept.

chronicon writes "As reported earlier Knoppix 3.8 was presented and CD's distributed at CeBIT recently. For those of us who were not able to attend, some kind folks have posted a torrent for all to enjoy. Now, here's where it really gets interesting. Using QEMU (processor emulator) chris-uk has posted a modified version of Knoppix 3.8 that will run under Windows if auto-played, or if you wish, you can boot the CD for normal Knoppix. You can find the torrent here."

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  1. Re:Great, But... by TelJanin · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can save Knoppix settings to a drive. Presumably the people have done this (couldn't RTFA, site is slashdotted)

  2. Mirrors by Shachaf · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's the Coral Cache and the Mirrordot Mirror.

  3. What about CoLinux? by ZehFernando · · Score: 5, Informative

    CoLinux is also a very handy package for running linux on windows. It installs linux on a single file on your HD, then runs linux on it, and you can access it throught VNC. So you can have windows and linux sharing the same machine and HD, running at the same time, on different windows. Pretty handy.

    http://www.colinux.org

    You can use it to run linux from some other partition too. It comes with a version of debian built it, but there are other packages for other distros.

    You can also try topologilinux.

    http://wwwtopologilinux.com

    It's a bundled installation of coLinux and slackware with all bells and whistles.

  4. Audio Linux ((Time to try Linux (again)) by chronicon · · Score: 2, Informative
    SuSE has a customized LiveCD based on 9.2 with audio as the focus. It worked well on all the boxen I have booted it. You can find it here or on one of the mirrors.

    I'm hoping they will release it as an installable distro at some point. The demo scripts worked great for patching different applications through jackd w/ ALSA. Very cool.

  5. Re:hope for good performance by Guspaz · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wrong. QEMU is a full system emulator. There is a processor module availble that virtualizes the CPU instead of emulating, but it is closed-source and linux-only. As such the windows version of QEMU is a full blown emulator.

  6. Re:Yes, but... by compm375 · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is one fatal flaw. Wine Is Not an Emulater.

  7. Re:Yes, but... by The+Hobo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Remember guys, any platform. Wine has also been ported to Windows.... (!)

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  8. slowness /w BT ~= router lack of configuration by Phil+Urich · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's . . . very, very odd. I've often been able to max out my bandwidth with torrents (though not nowadays, considering that I'm at the university residence . . . faster even than my prior aDSL, true, but if I let it go, I'd break my weekly download/upload limits damn quickly!). There are many things that could be going wrong. One of the problems often encountered, which is the most likely cause since I've seen similar same symptoms on many a computer, is your router. Part of the reason I've never had to care is 'cause I've eskewed routers; I hate them, I reallly do. But if you're using one, and getting crappy speeds using BitTorrent, this may very well be it, so just read up on the solution here. Hope that works for ya.

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  9. Naw... by SaDan · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just started a torrent, and I'm already over 12KB/s.

    Yes, I'm sharing too.. 16KB/s up is my limit for torrents (384K DSL uplink).

  10. Re:Are they insane? by jhoger · · Score: 2, Informative

    How about not waiting and getting to work on QEMU?

    QEMU has the right emphasis from the beginning. To make something that is fast and usable.

    And that's what it is, on several platforms. It's got the momentum, why divide up resources? QEMU will run on more platforms, and is getting the same virtualization goodies as Xen. The tiny virtualization kernel is open source but non-free till Fabrice can get some funding, but have some faith based on his entire body of Free software contributions that it will also become free.

    -- John.

  11. Portable Virtual Privacy Machine by millette · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's another option, designed for a USB key. It runs Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. all in a virtual linux machine. The release is planned to work on GNU/Linux, ms windows and mac os x, although the current release candidate doesn't work on the mac. It also uses qemu, of course. More info: Portable Virtual Privacy Machine.

  12. Re:www.knoppix.net by gtoomey · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mark the parent as moronic, not interesting. Knoppix.net is one of the links in the story.

  13. URL for "QEMU and coLinux with KNOPPIX" at AIST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    QEMU with KNOPPIX

    http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/qemu/index-en. html

    coLinux with KNOPPIX

    http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/colinux/index- en.html

    Here is an installer to NTFS of Windows2000/XP.

    Install2win

    http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/win/index-en.h tml

  14. Re:Are they insane? by jhoger · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oops... re-read the QEMU site, KQEMU is non-free and closed source. I took away something from KQEMU discussion that was incorrect.

    But the intent as stated by Fabrice is to get sponsorship so that eventually KQEMU can eventually be Free. So, essentially KQEMU module is a kind of ransomware.

    -- John.