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

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

[Stefan Monnier]

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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


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.

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

[Christian MICHON]

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". ]
>
> 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
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>


-- 
Christian