Tag: QEMU

Want to try out a Linux distro but don't feel like switching from Windows, rebooting your computer, or installing a virtualization application like VirtualBox? MobaLiveCD is a Windows utility that lets you run any LiveCD in Windows without installing a thing. Just download and run MobaLiveCD.exe (which is a 1.4MB file), and select the ISO you want to run. Thanks to the magic of QEMU, you'll be ...

There's still no word as to whether Virtual PC will run on Intel Macs any time soon, but this Q project looks pretty promising. It was only a matter of time, since you'd think emulating Windows straight to the hardware would be easy, right? Yeah, well, probably not, but it'll at least be faster. Q is a Cocoa port of QEMU, but looks so much like VPC though I hope they don't get the legal smackdown. ...

IBM developerWorks is running a curious article by Chris Ward that describes how to "Construct and package a Linux LiveCD so that it will ... operate as a standard Windows screensaver." Why would you want to run Linux as a screensaver? Well, mostly because you can, but also "to help remove two obstacles to the wider adoption of free and open source software ... the perceived ...