"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>>> Also - virtual machines are SOOOO SLOOOOOW... :-/
>>
>> They aren't that slow. Thing is, you're using QEMU, which isn't a virtual
>> machine, it's an emulator. Software like VMware or VirtualBox use your 
>> real
>> CPU instead of basically executing x86 code on an interpreter.
>
> Presumably that requires *very* specialised hardware though?

Not at all. VirtualPC is what I'm using on my destop. I run  it on my laptop 
as well. VMWare (workstation) will run on any modern PC with a compatible 
processor (virtually all of the intel and AMD chips)
That's the whole point of virtual machines, they don't need specialised 
hardware

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