[TriLUG] WinXP in QEMU?

[Ian Kilgore]

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David McDowell wrote:
| anyone have good success with WinXP Home/Pro in QEMU?? (I'll be trying
| QEMU on CentOS 3.4 or 4.0 possibly).  CEO keeps having terrible
| problems with her kids and her XP installation constantly crashing...
| I've almost convinced her to try linux, but need to give her a way to
| get to Microsoft Office and Quickbooks, figured a free VM is better
| than paying for crossover or something.
|
| How'd the networking and how's QEMU on allowing the VM to access the
| local /home of the host OS?
|
| Thanks,
| David McD

I'd have to imagine that QEMU would be prohibitively slow.. vmware maybe?
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