I never understood the whole make your console a computer obsession. I mean, don't you have to use a perfectly working computer to learn how to make your console a computer? Can't you just continue to use that first computer as a perfectly working... computer?
There's no stopping these guys, though. It seems that someone took a Linux-loaded PS3 one step further for... bragging rights? I don't know. Through some untold evil invocation, they managed to shoehorn Windows Vista onto a PlayStation 3. Prepare to nod your head in continual disbelief as you watch the above video, making sure to frequently close your eyes in disgust a few times. And you have plenty of time to close your eyes, as it takes about 4 full minutes before we even get cursor move-ability.
In fact, the loading time is so painfully slow that the video actually jumps to 8x speed, and even then, the video is over 7 minutes long. And the payoff? In the end, Notepad opens after 12 minutes. Woo.
If there was a Console Abuse headline, I would definitely call this in.
STFUAJPG?
[Via Kotaku]
How To:
-Install Qemu 0.9.1
-Use vlite to shrink a Vista Image, and apply the 256mb memory patch
-Install Vista on your Computer using the vlite image with Qemu and Bochs Bios Rev 1.171 by sshwarts (It took my computer 12 hours.)
-Copy the .IMG Made from Bochs/Qemu to your PS3's HDD
-Open Terminal where the Vista IMG is located
-type qemu -hda vista.img -m 256 -L "Location to Rev 1.171 directory, Drag n Drop" -cpu pentium3
It will take about 25 min to fully boot (network connection and audio show up)
Bochs Bios Rev 1.171:
http://tinyurl.com/65v5sf
Video Download Locations:
http://tinyurl.com/5ds84w
Mirror:
http://tinyurl.com/6ykur6
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Contest:
10:01 AM on 08.06.2008
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so it's like this
PPE(power4)---hypervisor---linux distro(with X11 running and all)---qemu---vista(biggest bloatware ever)
working as intended.
Because they want something good instead of something crap?
/umbrella
For shame.
It's not true. I stream videos from winXP to 360 all the time. You don't need a media centre PC, just windows media player.
I can understand why people do it, they felt it was a challenge. You should see the stuff people try to put linux on. Hell, "does it run linux?" is a meme. Toaster? Does it run linux? coffee maker? does it .... you get the picture.
This just adds to the list of "cool stuff a ps3 can do".
I wonder how they got around the ram problem...
That's funny, I could swear my computer is a Windows XP machine and has been able to stream my movies and pictures and music over to my 360 since I got it. Hah yeah I must just be crazy..... -_-
1) It's not a CPU power problem. It's a memory problem. The system just doesn't have enough RAM to run -any- OS worth a damn. Because of this...
2) Linux doesn't run worth a damn on PS3 either. Vista is a huge memory hog, but unless you've stripped-down your Linux build, it's just as useless for everyday computing.
@TorpedoTed: It doesn't. If you were to run Windows on an emulator on a PC it'll be just as slow as this. Maybe a little quicker because PCs generally have more RAM than 256MB but it would still be unusable.
While the PS3's processor runs at a much more basic and simplified architecture that works in linearity (which means it will take forever to do anything in it that isn't a linearly processed application like your average PS3 game). Although the PS3's processor is powerful, its just not as advanced or efficient as regular parallel processors in PC's. If it was, you would be paying an arm and a leg for a PS3 to run games at the quality that it does :)
But it's also slow mostly because of the fact that the PS3 only has 256MB of memory in it, and Vista really requires 1GB+ to run well.
An emulator isn't going to mimic all the vector and streaming instructions on an x86 CPU, so even on a supercomputer it would be slow as dirt.
You want to see slow? Try emulating a PS2 on a PC, let alone a PS3.
And yet I can play PS3 and other current gen games on my PC just fine.