[TriLUG] Run two OS simultaneously

[Smith, Brett]

qemu is all you need ...
read the docs on qemu
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC10
and check out bochs how to as it will help you understand
then when you are ready do this

dd if=/dev/zero of=w98.img bs=1024 seek=mysize count=0

myimage should be your disk size in kb. <not sure but I think you can put M
behind it for MB>

then make and iso of your w98disk. I do this for speed. it is not necessary
but you will want to installs take a while no need to tie up the cdrom drive

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=w98.iso bs=1024

then when all that is done do this

qemu -hda w98.img -cdrom w98.iso -boot d 

*** Boot on floppy (a), hard disk (c) or CD-ROM (d). Hard disk boot is the
default. *** 

this should start the install for you

then when it is time to reboot change the command to boot from c

qemu -hda w98.img -cdrom w98.iso -boot c


-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Carnes [mailto:jonc at nc.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:22 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Run two OS simultaneously


On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 07:54, Smith, Brett wrote:
> Don't forget CoLinux http://www.colinux.org/
> QEMU is the fastest free x86 emulator http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
> I run Windows 2000 in QEMU now...
> Bochs is way to slow for anything other than development
> 

I tried running the binary on an up-to-date RH9 box (if such thing can
really exist now that it is EOL'ed by Red Hat)... 
  "qemu-i386" gives a segmentation fault 
 (though "qemu" gives the standard help menu type items) 

I'll probably have to compile it to get it to run nicely. Is it worth
it? How do you load a Win98 image onto it?  I don't see a way to bring
up the emulator in simple BIOS emulation mode (so that I can load the CD
and install Win98).

Jon Carnes

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