To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
From: Lexington Luthor <lexington.luthor@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Stealing ur megahurts (no, really)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 16:06:22 +0100
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Panagiotis Issaris wrote:
> An easier way might be to use a system emulator like Qemu.
> You can specify the amount of memory the emulated system has,
> and if you do not use the kernel accelerating module (kqemu)
> it slows down considerably.
> 
> Of course, it would be nicer if you could actually specify performance
> levels and an issue with this approach is that it does not uniformly
> scale down performance: I think IO emulation performance is a lot worse
> then CPU emulation performance (in Qemu).
> 

I have in the past used Bochs to precisely control the exact speed at 
which I run an emulated machine. Though this was for some DOS app which 
insisted on a ~20Mhz CPU, there is no reason this would not work on a 
Linux system emulated by Bochs.

http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

Regards,
LL

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