Q Emulator

I got a new laptop and this time i made the switch to a Mac. And the Mac is great i am real happy with it but unfortunately i can’t run everything on it yet so i was looking how to run the two programs that i still need. I ran in to the open source program called Q Emulator and what they promise is that you can run a lot of operating systems in your Max OSx environment.

I installed Q and that went smooth and then i just followed the installation instructions for XP that i found on their website. It all went smooth although i took a long while. The minutes that Microsoft tells you that it will take are not accurate at all any more it will take a lot longer!

After the installation is done you can install a little driver that makes a share on you mac so that you can copy files between your Mac os and your Windows XP. It works fine and that makes the file transfers easy.

XP runs a lot slower then i wanted it to run. even after i gave it almost halve of my system memory (max that you are allowed to use) and get the sound driver out it still was slow but for me that was not the main reason why to stop using it.

The problems that i found was that my ftp communications where so slow that my files never got to the place they needed to go. And that was the main reason why i was using Q.

Also i found that often XP would not see cd’s that i put in the drive while the mac didn’t have problems with that.

I like Q but it just doesn’t allow me to do what i want it to do so for now i think i have to wait till i get my leopard cd from Apple and then see if i can get xp working fast next to os x.

Check out Q if you want to install another operating system in your mac environment.

You can find the Free version of Q at www.kju-app.org

Written by George on November 9th, 2007 with no comments.
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