Q [kju:] emulator is a feature packed Cocoa port of QEMU: Run Linux, Windows, and other systems on your Mac.
Switch fast between guest PCs. Save and restart guest PCs at any stage. Easily exchange Files between Host and Guest. Q emulator makes use of OS X most advanced technologies like openGL and CoreAudio to accelerate your experience with your guest PC. Please remember, at the present state, QEMU is still considered Alpha software.
What's New
Version 0.9.0a89:
flashdrive: import/export Guests as executable pakages… send a guest-pc to a friend - he needs no programm installed to run it (cordney*)
Quartz support with faster selective drawing code: faster video output, as no unneeded screenregions are updated (mike)
toolbar in fullscreen: have handy functions ready with "cmd-b" (cordney*)
network and firewall settings tabs: routing ports was never easier (cordney*)
German, French and Polish translation (Katios, Krzysztof)
new icons: we now have micro-, fullscreen- and toolbaricons (andy)
animated windowcycling: change between fullscreen guests as you would expect (mike)
bootorder that supports multiple bootdrives
tons of bugfixes
Version 0.9.0a89:
flashdrive: import/export Guests as executable pakages… send a guest-pc to a friend - he needs no programm installed to run it (cordney*)
Quartz support with faster selective drawing code: faster video output, as no unneeded screenregions are updated (mike)
toolbar in fullscreen: have handy functions ready with "cmd-b" (cordney*)
this Q is not working for me at all, am running a G5. can anyone suggest another platform to run win software on a mac seamlessly download without fees.
Surprisingly, VirtualPC 5 on a 1GHz G4 iBook noticably outperforms Q on a 2Ghz iMac G5 , both running a fresh instal of Windows 98
I didn't do any benchmarking. I'm going purely based on how fast it feels.
Performance problems aside, it does exactly what it says. It does it easier than the other free PC emulation software, and hey it's free!
I'd like to see performance optimizations for the Intel emulation on PowerPCs but the Qemu team is probably focusing on getting intel virtualization working now.
A great overall product, it shows a lot of promise!
While I was waiting to get VPC, I used Q. It's easy to set up, but it was slow. It was good for an emulation, but I wouldn't recommend this for everyday work use. Maybe just for that .doc file or a small DOS game. Maybe on the G5s and Intels it runs better, but on my G4, VPC is much faster.
Actually, no emulator of any kind is needed on a Mac for .doc files. Yes, NeoOffice, clunky and resource-hungry as it is, is one option. AppleWorks works just fine, and is fast too. It saves any document you can later open in MS Word should you so desire. If you're using Mac, why not just use what's already there? Test it out...It's a lot of more cross-platform than you might think, and no emulator needed.
Works almost as fast as VPC, except free. Supports most of the same features as VPC. The universal binary version supposedly runs way faster than VPC on Intel hardware... I suggest you all keep an eye on this project!
Keep in mind that this one is not the only "free" x86 emulator available for Mac. There's Bochs--which requires a little Unix knowledge--and QemuX, another attempt at giving Qemu a nice interface, but one that remains pretty buggy. Hopefully, Q emulator will be more successful than these.
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Q [kju:] emulator is a feature packed Cocoa port of QEMU: Run Linux, Windows, and other systems on your Mac.
Switch fast between guest PCs. Save and restart guest PCs at any stage. Easily exchange Files between Host and Guest. Q emulator makes use of OS X most advanced technologies like openGL and CoreAudio to accelerate your experience with your guest PC. Please remember, at the present state, QEMU is still considered Alpha software.
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IDK reviewed on 27 May 2009
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AntonioHuanchaco reviewed on 07 Feb 2009
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ThreeDee912 reviewed on 22 Aug 2007
I have a G4 PPC and I downloaded this. Now my question is how do I get Windows installed? Can I just download it from a site or do I need CD?
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Tomis reviewed on 17 Jul 2006
I didn't do any benchmarking. I'm going purely based on how fast it feels.
Performance problems aside, it does exactly what it says. It does it easier than the other free PC emulation software, and hey it's free!
I'd like to see performance optimizations for the Intel emulation on PowerPCs but the Qemu team is probably focusing on getting intel virtualization working now.
A great overall product, it shows a lot of promise!
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lectrick reviewed on 03 Mar 2006
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My wildness dreams have come true.
There is hope! XD
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I have set my router to DHCP, it works on my PowerBook.
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MICATO rated on 25 Apr 2012