MS Windows through QEMU

[Paul Howarth]

Jack Gates wrote:
> On Thursday 31 August 2006 09:03, gb spam wrote:
>> On 8/30/06, Jack Gates <jlgates at charter.net> wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 30 August 2006 11:08, gb spam wrote:
>>>> On 8/29/06, Jack Gates <jlgates at charter.net> wrote:
>>>>> Is there a way to
>>>>> start a GUI session with qemu?
>>>> There is, and unfortunately its called kqemu.  I believe it was
>>>> written before Fabrice wrote his kqemu)
>>>>
>>>> http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=19407
>>>> http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=34257
>>> kqemu does not appear to be available in the repositories.
>> Its a kommander script.  Download the source (don't panic, there's
>> nothing to compile) from kde-apps and run it with kmdr-executor.
>> kmdr-executor is part of the kdewebdev package, which is in the
>> repositories.
> 
> What does this mean and what should I do with it?
> 
> Could not configure '/dev/rtc' to have a 1024 Hz timer. This is not a 
> fatal
> error, but for better emulation accuracy either use a 2.6 host Linux 
> kernel or
> type 'echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq' as root.
> Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated

Have you tried doing what it suggests?

# echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq

If that works for you, you'll probably want to add the command to 
/etc/rc.d/rc.local so that it gets set at boot time.

Paul.