Existing users, 
WinTel
x86 Windows virtual machine for PPC & Intel Macs
Version: 2.1.3
Almost useable, but far from finished
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: rafirafrafster Wednesday, February 22 2006 @ 12:47 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 1-6 months
Recommend Product: NO
I left some feedback back on version 2.0.1 where the emulator was proported to be a ton faster, and in fact, was barely useable. To be fair, this new version, which employs an Intel-native version of qemu, runs much much better, and in fact feels fairly zippy on a stock core duo iMac. That said, it's still very buggy, and randomly hits weird slowdowns for some strange reason. Not ready for prime time, but much better than the last version.
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Re: Thank You! - rafirafrafster
Well, to say that the product is functional is a stretch, honestly. I can't get networking to work at all, it's grumpy, and it's not stable by any means. The difference now is that when it decides to work, it's pretty fast. Frankly, I think Q has a much better UI and shows some serious promise. Right now, the two products are neck in neck, so to speak, and both should be considered young betas at best.Thursday, February 23 2006 @ 03:16 AM PST
Almost useable, but far from finished - -=Someone=-
Alex, I don't quite understand your comment. Qemu is a free emulator that you can download yourself. All the OpenOSX people have done is put a front end on it. Don't be fooled into thinking that you are getting something significantly better by purchasing from this company.I still question the ethics of rebranding open source software and selling it as something else.
Thursday, February 23 2006 @ 02:56 PM PST
Almost useable, but far from finished - alexeagar
I am not fooled that Wintel is a front end for Qemu. I really doubt they are trying to fool anyone. The Wintel web page states "WinTel is our popular Cocoa graphical user interface used to control the included powerful underlying open-source "Qemu" x86 virtualization/emulation software." They are not rebranding and selling Qemu. They are not selling Qemu at all. They are selling a graphical user interface. There is nothing wrong with that. I welcome all people to work towards making emulation and virtualization better on Mac OS X. Open source projects are great and I support them, but there is nothing wrong with closed source projects. I try to give them the benefit of the doubt because I think they will try to make a good product and that includes improving the Qemu source code which I believe they will do.Alex
Thursday, February 23 2006 @ 04:42 PM PST
Thank You! - alexeagar
That is all I was looking for. Just somebody to install it and tell us how well it works. I was going to buy it out of spite for the terrible "reviews" but that was enough to satisfy me. The product is real and is functional. I would buy it if it was significantly better than than Q or plain Qemu with Accelerator. If they can get to that point I will still buy it.Good bye and good night,
Alex
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Wednesday, February 22 2006 @ 08:05 PM PST