From: Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] booting WIN XP from Linux
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:10:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <79bf98480510211110p64e09d7eld7d53e49ffe33e23@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4358F5B5.4040909@xtal.rwth-aachen.de>
I have heard that making a new, blank "Hardware Profile" works,
however I have neither tried it nor do I know the exact instructions
to do so.
On 10/21/05, Jan Marten Simons <marten@xtal.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> 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.
--
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-21 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-21 12:24 [Qemu-devel] booting WIN XP from Linux Sergey Smirnov
2005-10-21 14:05 ` Jan Marten Simons
2005-10-21 18:10 ` Mike Swanson [this message]
2005-10-21 18:33 ` Christian MICHON
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