Help Setting Up Virtual Machine

TentativeChaos · 03-23-2008, 11:51 AM

OK, I'm trying to set up Windows XP service pack 3 on a virtual machine on my PC which I'm currently running Ubuntu (Gnome) on. I downloaded an .iso image of the install disk, and I tried to put it onto the virtual hard drive I created. This is what happened:

Quote:

dan@Dan-PC:~$ qemu -cdrom my_os_install.iso -hda c.img -m 256 -boot d
qemu: could not open hard disk image 'my_os_install.iso'

What am I doing wrong?
I'm doing this with QEMU using this tutorial.

P.S.
I renamed the .iso file to my_os_install.iso so that's not a problem
Also I tried CDing to the file and then doing this and it still didn't work.

TentativeChaos · 03-23-2008, 06:06 PM

I'm bumping this, because I really need an answer.

billymayday · 03-23-2008, 06:11 PM

Did you try putting a path in the iso filename? Something like

Code:

qemu -cdrom /path/to/iso/my_os_install.iso -hda c.img -m 256 -boot d

Can you show us ls -l my_os_install.iso

billymayday · 03-23-2008, 06:13 PM

Also, what user are you doing this all as. Are you stuck at step 3 of the howto?

TentativeChaos · 03-23-2008, 07:16 PM

Yes step three, and I'm the owner and administrator.

TentativeChaos · 03-23-2008, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billymayday

Did you try putting a path in the iso filename? Something like

Code:

qemu -cdrom /path/to/iso/my_os_install.iso -hda c.img -m 256 -boot d

Can you show us ls -l my_os_install.iso

yay worked thanks