Re: How should we run Windows XP from Linux Desktop?

noi wrote:

> Can you load Windows programs with QEMU emulating W2k?
qemu emulates a machine, not a SO... you install whatever windows you want
in qemu and then you install programs in windows.

> Can you install W2k on QEMU or make W2k image first then invoke QEMU and
> install W2k programs? Or do you still need Wine?
no wine needed... you will be running a real windows on a simulated
enviroment.

once you get started with qemu (there is kqemu, a nice frontend for qemu)
you will understand how it works, it might be a little hard to understand
how do you install other sistems in the begining, so don't give up at first
try.

you will need to create virtual-disks, that is started to create empty files
with some space... let's say, 3Gb... this sound strange to me because you
use to think that a empty file as 0bytes. there is a program "qemu-img"
that does the job.
then you will ned to create a partition on that file and format it. for that
use the tools of the system your going to install: those partition tools on
winxp cd or the good old "fdisk" and "format c:".

qemu can boot from the first hd (you choose witch virtual disk will be HDA).
it can boot from disquete if you tell him the path to your drive (/dev/fd0)
and put a boot disquete on it.
and it can boot from cdrom if you give him the path for one of your
cd-readers.

qemu emulates a graphical card (cirrus logic), a sound blaster (sb16) and a
ethernet card, but it does not emulate a cd-burner. it doesn't let you
change cd's (at least not to me)... so, don't think you will be abled to do
everything you would do on a real windows instalation, there are some
limitations. Ahhhh, it's not good for gaming because of the cirrus logic
card.

regards
Amarok


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