From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FyEsD-0006qp-VZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:25:30 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FyEsB-0006p5-Rw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:25:29 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyEsB-0006oq-LN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:25:27 -0400 Received: from [81.29.64.88] (helo=mail.shareable.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FyEsE-0004E3-8x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:25:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 22:25:24 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] No useful documentation. Message-ID: <20060705212524.GA27733@mail.shareable.org> References: <1152133046.8295.85.camel@Agape-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1152133046.8295.85.camel@Agape-desktop> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: daniel.carrera@zmsl.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Daniel Carrera wrote: > I've looked at qemu several times over the past several years. Every > time I get excited at the prospect of migrating people to GNU/Linux by > letting them run the one windows app they need... and every time I hit a > brick wall, as qemu fails to actually do anything useful. > > Try to take this approach: You are writing to a technically competent > user (perhaps a sysadmin) who wants to run Windows under Linux with qemu > (perhaps to migrate some of the company computers). He has a Windows > install CD, he has qemu installed, and is ready to go. Please write > something that this person can use to get Windows running under qemu. Personally I found Qemu astonishingly easy to use, and simply not needing a lot of documentation to get an OS installed from CD into it. A couple of hours after installing Qemu, having never used it before, I had a working virtual machine running CentOS, installed from a set of virtual CDs. An hour later, kqemu (the accelerator) was installed and working. I was most impressed by how easy it was and how little I had to tweak. But then I wasn't trying to run Windows inside it. Is Windows harder to install in it than some random Linux distro? -- Jamie