Winbloze under QEMU?

Randux · 06-28-2006, 10:41 AM

I've been able to run a clone of my Slackware under Slackware under QEMU (note however, that Slackware doesn't run under Slackware under Slackware. Apparently, you can only take things so far.)

I cannot get the damnable Winbloze to run under it. It starts booting and then just freezes. I've tried with and without kqemu.

Has anyone had any luck with this?

Thanks,
Rand

Alien Bob · 06-28-2006, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Randux

I've been able to run a clone of my Slackware under Slackware under QEMU (note however, that Slackware doesn't run under Slackware under Slackware. Apparently, you can only take things so far.)

Hmm... I have tried running QEMU under QEMU in the past without problems (but that was a 0.7 qemu release).

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I cannot get the damnable Winbloze to run under it. It starts booting and then just freezes. I've tried with and without kqemu.

Has anyone had any luck with this?

Thanks,
Rand

I run Windows 2000 and Windows XP on my Athlon3200+ inside QEMU with quite satisfactory speeds (using kqemu). Did you build (k)qemu yourself, or did you use my packages?

Eric

Randux · 06-28-2006, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

Hmm... I have tried running QEMU under QEMU in the past without problems (but that was a 0.7 qemu release).

I run Windows 2000 and Windows XP on my Athlon3200+ inside QEMU with quite satisfactory speeds (using kqemu). Did you build (k)qemu yourself, or did you use my packages?

Eric

Hi Eric/AB,

If I can recall, I built QEMU as it was a snap. I think I did use your kqemu because it looked like a nightmare in progress after reading the directions.

Now what do I check? I can't even get it to complete init.

This was the original (and still valid) thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ighlight=kqemu

Alien Bob · 06-28-2006, 12:47 PM

Ah... you want to run an already installed-to-harddisk Windows under QEMU? I would guess that Windows chokes on the emulated hardware it suddenly appears to run on. Even if it would start, it would require several reboots to get the ATA/video/USB working and if you run Windows off a SATA or SCSI drive, you will indeed not get past the bootloader.

For all intended purposes, you should install Windows in it's own image file if you want this to be a fun experience.
Read my Wiki article on QEMU if you need more pointers.

Eric

Randux · 06-28-2006, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

Ah... you want to run an already installed-to-harddisk Windows under QEMU? I would guess that Windows chokes on the emulated hardware it suddenly appears to run on. Even if it would start, it would require several reboots to get the ATA/video/USB working and if you run Windows off a SATA or SCSI drive, you will indeed not get past the bootloader.

For all intended purposes, you should install Windows in it's own image file if you want this to be a fun experience.
Read my Wiki article on QEMU if you need more pointers.

Eric

I don't have an installation disk. All I have is this "pre-installed" copy which came on the machine.

Awesome link, btw.

Alien Bob · 06-28-2006, 01:21 PM

What is the QEMU command line you use, and what are you able to see in the QEMU window? Do you see the Windows boot loader at all?

Eric

Randux · 06-28-2006, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

What is the QEMU command line you use, and what are you able to see in the QEMU window? Do you see the Windows boot loader at all?

Eric

I use

qemu -hda /dev/hda -snapshot

and then I see a terminal open which looks like my native machine. I get the LILO boot image and my selection list. I select Win from my list and it says "booting Windows" and that's it. QEMU is running 97% CPU and never comes back.

I tried to create an image file in /tmp and it seemed like that part worked. I don't remember the command as I can't find my notes. But it didn't work any better.

Alien Bob · 06-28-2006, 04:16 PM

Well.. running "qemu -hda /dev/hda -snapshot" on my own PC with XP on hda1 and lilo in the MBR, just gives me "L 99 99 99 99 ....." in the QEMU window.
Which proves that you should not use your real hard drive as the raw QEMU image just like that... there's bound to be incompatibilities in the layout of the virtualized hard disk and the emulated hardware.

Eric

Randux · 06-29-2006, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

Well.. running "qemu -hda /dev/hda -snapshot" on my own PC with XP on hda1 and lilo in the MBR, just gives me "L 99 99 99 99 ....." in the QEMU window.
Which proves that you should not use your real hard drive as the raw QEMU image just like that... there's bound to be incompatibilities in the layout of the virtualized hard disk and the emulated hardware.

Eric

I can boot anything else on my lilo list including several other Linux and OpenBSD. So QEMU doesn't seem to have a problem with disk images. Now we know why they call it Winbloze.