Re: [Qemu-devel] Moving pre-installed Windows to qemu?

["Christian MICHON" <christian.michon@gmail.com>]

quite impossible: the hardware inside qemu guest would be different
with the real hardware of the laptop.

worst case: error 7b and blue screen. it will not go further, and it
means you need to reinstall everything.

best case: it moves further in safe mode, but then you'll need the
xp cdrom for installing updated drivers.

I've seen this working with win95. I had a complete dd of an old
win95 harddisk, and was able to boot my "old" pc when I actually
threw away the hardware... :)

On 3/19/07, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> [ The Wiki seems to be down "[Errno 28] No space left on device". ]
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> As soon as I received my new laptop I began by shrinking its XP partition
> and installing Debian on it.  Now, I don't intend to use XP on it ever, but
> my wife would need to do that occasionally.  I'd rather be able to do it
> without stopping Debian by running XP under QEMU by am wondering how I could
> do that using only my current partition (or the "rescue" partition): Lenovo
> did not provide an actual DVD or some such install media.
>
> Any idea?
>
>
>        Stefan
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> PS: I could consider using Xen as well if that makes it easier, although I'd
> much rather use qemu since it doesn't require any special kernel.
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-- 
Christian