Re: Booting up an old Windows 3.1 harddisk image

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 10/18/2011 03:08 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
> >>>>> "Avi" == Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Avi> On 10/18/2011 02:59 AM, John Stoffel wrote:
> >> Hi Guys,
> >> 
> >> I'm not a subscriber to the kvm mailing list, so please copy me in
> >> your replies.
> >> 
> >> I've got an old image of an i486 disk running (I think!) Windows 3.1
> >> which I want to bring up and play with, just to make sure I can use
> >> it.  
> >> 
> >> > file hda-caroline486.image 
> >> hda-caroline486.image: x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP mbr;
> >> partition 1: ID=0x6, active, starthead 1, startsector 17, 254983
> >> sectors, code offset 0x33
> >> 
> >> I basically just dd'd the entire disk into a file.  I can mount it
> >> using a loop device and then examine the partitions, so I think it's
> >> fine from that viewpoint.
> >> 
> >> My server is a Debian 5.0 box, running on AMD Quad Core CPU, 8gb of
> >> RAM.  
>
> Avi> What's the host kernel version?
>
> I thought I was running the stock Debian version, but I'm actually
> running my own 3.1.0-rc4 kernel.  A bit out of date, but I don't
> remember seeing any major KVM breakage in the later part of the
> 3.1-rc# series.
>
>   Linux version 3.1.0-rc4-custom (john@quad) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian
>   4.4.5-8) ) #1 SMP Wed Aug 31 12:12:32 EDT 2011

That's plenty recent.  I was worried about having an old emulator.

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