Comments on: Vista on a PS3

By: DarkStarr

DarkStarr — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:15:45 +0000

As hpux said “I’d be more interested if someone could figure out how to upgrade the ram.” I mean come on vista is so stupid, yea I’m gonna go get a new pc just to run a new OS? not likely. And vista on the ps3 it just a big WTF? why would someone want to take a $400-$500 game system and turn it into a slow as hell windows vista os? The only thing I would put effort into putting vista on would be the mac pro desktop XD and then only as a dual boot.

By: Harvie

Harvie — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:17:14 +0000

whattah? Speed Windows in QEMU really sux. I tryed to install XP in it and i gived it up… Next time you can use Innotek VirtualBOX, which is million time quicker for windows…

By: hpux

hpux — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:26:10 +0000

Are you kidding? This makes me so sad. The PS3 is such a limited platform (256MB non-upgradable ram) why should we care? How is this a hack (install a readily available program, BFD)? And why is it useful?

I’d be more interested if someone could figure out how to upgrade the ram.

By: hpf

hpf — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:18:25 +0000

Why would anyone invest the effort to port Vista to *anything?* The end result is akin to putting a turd in an omelette… Interesting to be sure, but not something I’d want to have.

By: basotl

basotl — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:55:03 +0000

You should open your package manager and install recordmydesktop. It’s an open source video capture program that you could have had on the host machine. It provides much better quality than your camera.

By: Louis II

Louis II — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:18:39 +0000

waste of a post…

By: Nitori

Nitori — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:03:07 +0000

Instead of trying to find a screen cap app for the PS3 another solution would be to make use of a video capture device though this would require booting in 480i mode or if your lucky the TV sometimes has a video out port for VCRs which down converts everything to SDTV.

Though I’ll admit QEMU is slow even for an emulator too bad there isn’t a way to get MacOS for PPC running via MOL on the PS3 and then run VPC on that.
Though the PS3 is still memory limited only 256MB for the general purpose computing PPE.

By: RT (Panzer Time!)

RT (Panzer Time!) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:19:04 +0000

I’m still waiting for my ps3 so I can run either Mac system 7 or trs-dos on it.

By: Hello1024

Hello1024 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:13:41 +0000

I believe quemu is required bcause the PS3 processor isn’t the x86 that windows expects. Thats why the emulation is so slow. (whenever the emulated and emulating processors are different, expect a 90% slowdown)

By: t0ny

t0ny — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:54:51 +0000

“your hard work will be rewarded by a speedy 25 minute boot time when you’re done.”

Wow not to bad for vista.

By: RJ Ryan

RJ Ryan — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:35:44 +0000

QEMU is an x86 emulator — you can run pretty much anything that needs an x86 architecture in QEMU. Whereas something like VMWare or Xen is a virtual machine, which actually runs the OS natively on the CPU, and therefore requires an x86 machine to work. All that this is saying is that qemu is runnable on PowerPC processors (the main CPU the PS3 has). On top of that, it would have taken 20 some minutes to boot Vista even if you were running QEMU on your own machine — that’s because it’s an emulator!

By: maxabc123

maxabc123 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:09:26 +0000

You also could have used a screen cap program to record the vid and not look like a 12 year old youtuber in the process.

By: maxabc123

maxabc123 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:07:04 +0000

Hmm, probably would have been ALOT faster if you had figured out how to get vmware on there. QEMU isnt exactly know for its blazing emulation speed. And on many cameras you can turn off autofocus, and if not you could have fixed it by opening a text file and blowing up the text so the camera could see it instead of showing off your cruddy desktop.

By: Hello1024

Hello1024 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:39:24 +0000

Just an idea…:

Why not cut out the fuzzy bits of the video instead of giving excuses for doing a poor job… Also the video could have done with being a lot shorter with more content, like for example benchmarks or instructions how to do the installation.

All in all, good work, although I have to say it’s hardly surprising it works, since this is exactly what qemu is designed for.

By: 2hochn

2hochn — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:35:28 +0000

He used Qemu 9.0.1 to install Vista on a PC

don’t you mean “on a PS3″?