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Offline nicholasTopic starter

QEMU-KVM on FS-UAE PPC
« on: January 12, 2017, 12:48:36 AM »
I vaguely remember reading a while back that work was being done to use QEMU-KVM virtualise the host CPU when running OS4.1 under FS-UAE on Linux/OSX when running on PPC hardware.

Did this ever happen?
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Offline nicholasTopic starter

Re: QEMU-KVM on FS-UAE PPC
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2017, 03:38:53 PM »
Is that a no?

Might have to have a fiddle and see what I can come up with.

Running a virtualised G4/G5 with qemu-kvm has got to be a lot faster than an emulated PPC on x86.
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Re: QEMU-KVM on FS-UAE PPC
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2017, 04:35:12 PM »
Quote from: nicholas;821357
Is that a no?

Might have to have a fiddle and see what I can come up with.

Running a virtualised G4/G5 with qemu-kvm has got to be a lot faster than an emulated PPC on x86.


I'm not so sure it would be faster virtualising on a PPC over emulating it on a modern x86... I have tried the PPC emulation in winUAE on my Skylake machine and it's faster than an PPC I have used (the last being a PowerBook G4).

Offline nicholasTopic starter

Re: QEMU-KVM on FS-UAE PPC
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2017, 08:17:06 PM »
Quote from: bloodline;821360
I'm not so sure it would be faster virtualising on a PPC over emulating it on a modern x86... I have tried the PPC emulation in winUAE on my Skylake machine and it's faster than an PPC I have used (the last being a PowerBook G4).

Has to be faster than a G4 or even a G5 interpretively emulating another G4 though.

Would be interesting to see how fast OS4 runs on a virtualised 2.7GHz G5. Which I happen to have under the desk.  :)
« Last Edit: February 02, 2017, 08:19:37 PM by nicholas »
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