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Something like that maybe :)
http://www.gnu.org/software/xnee/

Yves

To answer my own question: I found a software called xmacro (http://xmacro.sourceforge.net). According to it's description it might be capable to perform the things I want, but I have to compile and test it the next days.

Quote:

Originally posted by theYinYeti
Something like that maybe :)
http://www.gnu.org/software/xnee/

THANK you very much Yves, yes, that looks quite right. That could result in booting my Slackware install some more times if I get it to work. And it looks like xnee might still being developed, not like xmacro :)

Quote:

Originally posted by Tinkster
There's expect (yes, it's ugly):

Code:

/usr/doc/expect-5.41/example]$ less telnet-cwd [Snipped ...]

but may well be what you need. Wouldn't be waiting for
a window to get focus, but you get the general idea.

Wow, it must be christmas time :p Thanks, that looks interesting. I have to admit I can't say if it works with the connection program I use (a Citrix Metaframe client) but I will surely save your suggestions on my harddrive and look into it.

titopoquito

EDIT: typo

It just so happens that I started messing about with Qemu last night.
I untarred the thing creating the directory - /home/foo/qemu-0.7.1.
I then untarred kqemu into that dir.

cd to qemu-0.7.1
./configure
make
su
make install (checkinstall for me)

You will need to modprobe kqemu, as root:

Code:

modprobe kqemu

Now create the directory - /home/foo/Qemu
cd to Qemu
give this command:

Code:

qemu-img create hd.img 3500M

This creates a blank hard drive of 3.5GB called hd.img

You can now boot to a windows floppy like so:

Code:

qemu -boot a -fda /dev/fd0 -hda hd.img

Run fdisk to create a partition, reboot and format.

Boot to your install cd:

Code:

qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda hd.img

When your ready to boot to the hard drive (hd.img):

Code:

qemu -boot c -hda hd.img

Here's the instructions I used:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=39513

Of course

Code:

qemu -h

will give you more details.

It's not perfect but I just started on it, so, we'll see.

Here's some "screenies" (check out 95 and ME at the same time!):

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/johnve...r=9779&.src=ph

I wrote this little thingy, made it executable, and put a link to it in my Kmenu and
on the Kicker as well.

Code:

#!/bin/sh

qemu -boot c -hda /home/foo/Qemu/hd.img \

    -enable-audio \

    -localtime

I got 98SE installed on mine but I would like to install XP (which I have on this machine) onto the Guest OS so I can use iTunes. Unfortunately my XP copy only will install on specific hardware, the hardware that is in this computer - but the emulator interferes with that and won't let the install start.

BTW how do I set up a folder that I can share files between the Guest and Host OSes?

Also I've read about how some people have made a sym link to their actual windows installation and then tried to boot it through QEMU - and actually been partially successful. Has anyone here tried that?