[TriLUG] Running Winders XP in Linux

Robert Dale robdale at gmail.com
Sat Dec 13 19:55:04 EST 2008


I use http://www.virtualbox.org/  There is content somewhere on the
'net describing how to use premade disk images.

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Neil L. Little <nllittle at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> In my next step of transition toward being winders free, I want to run a
> XP installation as a virtual machine on a Linux box. (ok, the original
> winders box (mobo) died and I dont want to have to go through the pain
> of getting it activated again after I have replaced the Mobo, the
> Processor, the video card, ok the only thing that remains the same is
> the hard drive and the case itself.). Another reason for doing this has
> to do with the applications I had on the system as well as a lot of
> other files I still need (Like my original resume files, email contacts
> and the like).
>
> As this is my first attempt at using virtualization ever and I see that
> there are more than one choice (QEMU, KVM, OpenVZ etc.), so which
> application is going to allow me to set this all up with the least pain?
>
> The system is on the original hard drive (Formatted as NTFS).
> The Linux distribution used will be Ubuntu (or rather the Kubutu KDE
> desktop environment).
>
> I seem to remember that there was a program or two presented at a Trilug
> meeting in the past but all those old notes and emails from the
> discussion list, reside (you guessed it) on the Winders machine.
>
> So I need to pointed in a direction where I can find a "How To" or
> something of the sort that will tell me about:
> 1. Making an Image of that Winders hard drive
> 2. Installing a virtual machine application on Ubuntu
> 3. Getting that XP installation running in the virtual machine
>
> As always, thanks for the help in advance.
>
> 73,
> Neil, WA4AZL
> www.jars.net
>
>
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Robert Dale



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