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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:05:41 +0200
From: Jan Marten Simons <marten@xtal.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] booting WIN XP from Linux
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Sergey Smirnov wrote:

>Does qemu support boot XP from Linux?
>I use Debian Linux.
>apt-get install qemu
>...
>qemu  -m 256 -snapshot -hda /dev/hda
>grub messages
>Choose XP
>Black screen...
>  
>
I suppose WinXP does not like to be booted in a completly different 
machine (copy-protection, drivers bound to the system). when trying to 
boot a disc in qemu it is equal to taking the physical disc to a 
completly different physical pc. If I remember corectly there are some 
guides (from Microsoft) on migrating WinXP to a new host, but it's not 
as easy as migrating linux for example. Different hardware profiles are 
an option I suppose.

With regards,

Jan