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From: Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] booting WIN XP from Linux
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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