Re: [Qemu-devel] Experiences installing Win98 on WinXP host.

[Elefterios Stamatogiannakis <estama@dblab.ece.ntua.gr>]

> I do know of a few others who use qemu on windows host, but they all compile
> from source and they only run linux guests. (I am curious why someone would
> want to run Windows inside of Windows. Are you being a very thorough beta tester
> (which we need), or do you actually have use of such a configuration?)

  I regularly test cvs versions of qemu using a windows on windows 
configuration. There are problems with qemu on a windows host (and i 
have fully reported them sometime before).
  The windows on windows is usefull to me because i'm trying to keep 
updated a (drive)image i have. Unfortunately qemu is not up to the task.

> Just curious, have you tried running a Linux guest on these builds? If so, what
> was the result?

  I also regularly test cvs versions of qemu with a variety of linux 
livecds on windows host. Qemu works like a champ with linux quests.
  Linux is simply more robust.
  For example on booting, linux reports that something funny is 
happening with the timekeeping and picks some other way for getting the 
time. From there it happily goes on.
  Windows 2000 as a guest just quits trying. For example windowsupdate 
doesn't work complaining that the time is not correct. SSL doesn't work 
at all (that is the real problem of windowsupdate, i think).

  I guess i should find the time someday and fix the problems (probably 
a gettime call in the windows codepath is incorrect).