[Qemu-devel] Creating a (resizable) image which will hold Windows XP

[Qemu-devel] Creating a (resizable) image which will hold Windows XP

[Allen Meyers]

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allen@debian:~$ qemu-img create -f qcow /path/to/xp.cow 1300M
bash: qemu-img: command not found
allen@debian:~$

Above reflects terminal msg when entering qemu-img create -f qcow
/path/to/xp.cow 1300M
Please advise what am I doing incorrectly
Following instructions
HOWTO: Install Windows XP in Debian using QEMU
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[Qemu-devel] Re: Creating a (resizable) image which will hold Windows XP

[Charles Duffy]

Allen Meyers wrote:
> allen@debian:~$ qemu-img create -f qcow /path/to/xp.cow 1300M
> bash: qemu-img: command not found

First, your qemu isn't installed correctly -- modern versions of the 
package will also include a "qemu-img" utility, which the command line 
you gave relies on.

Second -- don't use qcow for anything, as it's long-undeveloped and 
generally not well supported; use qcow2 in its place if you must -- or, 
if the only feature you care about is that the file grows only as you 
add contents to the VM, consider a sparse raw file, which will have 
better reliability and performance; these can be created by standard 
UNIX tools such as dd.

>     HOWTO: Install Windows XP in Debian using QEMU

I'm unfamiliar with this HOWTO you're following. Did you include a link 
to it anywhere in your email? Is it maintained by any qemu developer, or 
someone else (such as Debian's documentation team)? If the latter, bugs 
in such documentation should be brought up with whoever maintains it.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Creating a (resizable) image which will hold Windows XP

[Rick Vernam]

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On Tuesday 17 March 2009 4:07:37 pm Allen Meyers wrote:
> allen@debian:~$ qemu-img create -f qcow /path/to/xp.cow 1300M
> bash: qemu-img: command not found
> allen@debian:~$
>
> Above reflects terminal msg when entering qemu-img create -f qcow
> /path/to/xp.cow 1300M
> Please advise what am I doing incorrectly
> Following instructions
> HOWTO: Install Windows XP in Debian using QEMU

I've never used debian, but referring back to your previous email, did you 
"apt-get install qemu" ??




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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Creating a (resizable) image which will hold Windows XP

[Robert Riebisch]

Charles Duffy wrote:

>>     HOWTO: Install Windows XP in Debian using QEMU
> 
> I'm unfamiliar with this HOWTO you're following. Did you include a link 
> to it anywhere in your email? Is it maintained by any qemu developer, or 
> someone else (such as Debian's documentation team)? If the latter, bugs 
> in such documentation should be brought up with whoever maintains it.

He probably refers to
<http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/howto-install-windows-xp-in-debian-using-qemu>,
which is from 2006.

Robert Riebisch
-- 
BTTR Software
http://www.bttr-software.de/