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I have been trying to run XP as a logical partition on my FC10-64 box. When I have gotten it running, it has been very unstable. I have only been able to get Virtual Machine Manager/Qemu to work. I am wanting to run ChessBase, which won't run under Wine.

Question #1:
When I get a virtual machine running, how can I back it up for easy restoration when it crashes.

Question #2:
I have tried the Sun Virtual Box, but it can't seem too read my cd with Win/XP on it. Any work arounds?

Question #3:
After several semi-successful attempts to get XP to run, when I try to install it now I get a Kernal Failure Message. any idea as to what could be wrong? Thx, Terry. This is the output to the dump:

Kernel failure message 1:
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kernel BUG at arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1528!
invalid opcode: 0000 [6] SMP
CPU 2
Modules linked in: nls_utf8 tun vfat fat fuse ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat bridge stp bnep sco l2cap bluetooth vboxdrv sunrpc ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand powernow_k8 freq_table dm_multipath kvm_amd kvm uinput snd_hda_intel arc4 snd_seq_dummy ecb snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event crypto_blkcipher snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_hwdep forcedeth rt73usb firewire_ohci snd nvidia(P) rt2x00usb pata_amd firewire_core crc_itu_t soundcore i2c_nforce2 rt2x00lib rfkill mac80211 cfg80211 i2c_core pcspkr usb_storage ata_generic pata_acpi sata_nv [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
Pid: 7184, comm: qemu-kvm Tainted: P D 2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.x86_64 #1 FQ565AA-ABA a6700f
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa09a619a>] [<ffffffffa09a619a>] kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot+0xf/0x13 [kvm]
RSP: 0018:ffff880119c1dbf8 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: ffff880119c39000 RBX: ffff88006d12bb00 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff88006d12bb00 RSI: ffff880119c1dc2c RDI: 000000003fc04d00
RBP: ffff880119c1dbf8 R08: ffff880119c1dc58 R09: ffff88004f9d0020
R10: 000000000000122e R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff88006d12bb00
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88013a41b000 R15: ffff88006d12c510
FS: 00007f9dbca6c950(0000) GS:ffff88013fc04d00(0000) knlGS:00000000f7eed760
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000003cff2091a1 CR3: 000000013b970000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process qemu-kvm (pid: 7184, threadinfo ffff880119c1c000, task ffff88012488ae20)
Stack: ffff880119c1dc58 ffffffffa09caa0f ffff88004f9d0020 ffff88006d12bb00
000000000000dc48 ffffffff8116beab 000000006d12bb58 ffff88006d12bb58
ffff88006d12bb00 0000000000000000 ffff88013a41b000 ffff88006d12c510
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa09caa0f>] svm_vcpu_run+0x1ba/0x3b8 [kvm_amd]
[<ffffffff8116beab>] ? __up_read+0x7a/0x83
[<ffffffffa09acf1e>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x459/0x69f [kvm]
[<ffffffffa09a645d>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0xf7/0x3c4 [kvm]
[<ffffffff8133468a>] ? _spin_lock+0x9/0xc
[<ffffffff8105fab9>] ? futex_wake+0xdc/0xed
[<ffffffff81060d0d>] ? do_futex+0xb5/0x973
[<ffffffff810badc3>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x99/0xb8
[<ffffffff8104c11b>] ? __sigqueue_free+0x38/0x3c
[<ffffffff8104ce13>] ? __dequeue_signal+0x103/0x12f
[<ffffffff8104e749>] ? dequeue_signal+0x9e/0x118
[<ffffffff810cc0a6>] vfs_ioctl+0x2a/0x78
[<ffffffff810cc32e>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x23a/0x24b
[<ffffffff810c7ae3>] ? path_put+0x1d/0x21
[<ffffffff810cc394>] sys_ioctl+0x55/0x79
[<ffffffff8101027a>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Code: 9c a0 31 c0 48 89 e5 c9 c3 55 48 c7 86 80 00 00 00 e0 4e 9c a0 31 c0 48 89 e5 c9 c3 80 3d 16 1a 02 00 00 55 48 89 e5 74 02 eb fe <0f> 0b eb fe 55 48 89 e5 41 54 49 89 fc 53 31 db eb 15 48 63 c3
RIP [<ffffffffa09a619a>] kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot+0xf/0x13 [kvm]
RSP <ffff880119c1dbf8>
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