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Old 06-07-2006, 11:12 AM   #1
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Run existing Winbloze under Linux QEMU?


Hey guys,

qemu-0.8.1, kqemu-1.3.0pre7_2.4.31-i486 (courtesy AlienBob)

I have QEMU setup on one of my Slackware machines. I can point it at my hard drive and LILO gets invoked just like on a power-on reset. But I can only boot another Linux machine. My OpenBSD and Winbloze systems die- OpenBSD during init with an nvram checksum error, and Winbloze just never even seems to start. QEMU stays at 99% CPU and never comes back. I also tried booting Win directly by giving the partition number but I get a blank screen.

If I tell LILO to boot one of my other Linux machines it works perfectly.

Any ideas? I don't have enough space to make a Winbloze image and I don't have a CD, it's a "pre-installed" system (fsck you, Bill Gates)

Thanks,
Rand

Update: I did create an image file on /tmp. I thought it had to be the size of the NTFS partition- it doesn't, it's much smaller. Same results, freezes and won't complete init.

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Old 06-07-2006, 11:44 AM   #2
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Just a note for anyone who wants to run OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSD variants) under QEMU- I found on the QEMU forum (http://qemu.dad-answers.com) a post suggesting disabling the kqemu feature with the -no-kqemu option on the qemu command line. I still got the same error message during OpenBSD's init but it did come up and I can use it normally, except that networking isn't working automatically and X is a little sick. It's weird because the screen is running in 640x480 instead of the 1024x768 that the other systems (including Live CDs) came up in.......

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Old 06-07-2006, 12:37 PM   #3
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I got windows XP (pre-SP1 - it's an old CD!) to install with only a few crashes & issues. It worked better with more RAM assigned to it.
 
Old 06-07-2006, 01:42 PM   #4
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I'm not trying to install anything- I'm trying to boot an installed copy. Thanks for mentioning the RAM, DOH! 128M default probably won't work for XP!
 
Old 06-07-2006, 01:48 PM   #5
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Still freezes on boot.
 
Old 06-07-2006, 01:54 PM   #6
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If you are running from your hardisk, you probably should try the "-snapshot" option.

Note that changes done to the harddrive are not going to be saved.
 
Old 06-07-2006, 02:24 PM   #7
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I use -snapshot but that doesn't help since Winbloze won't boot
 
  


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