[TriLUG] Running Winders XP in Linux

[Neil L. Little]

Thanks all for the help. I have places to go look now to work toward my 
final solution. During all this I found this sticky on the Ubuntu Forums 
virtualization discussion that puts all the information in one place.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=973756

Now I just have to work through all of this.

73,
Neil,WA4AZL
JARS Forever!!
www.jars.net


Brian Phelps wrote:
> I have run a previously native XP under a VM by first booting a live linux
> cd in the VM and then:
>  dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda
>
> hdb is the original Windows install, hda is the new virtual drive thats the
> same size.
>
> If you go from AMD to intel or vice versa it bluescreens like was mentioned
> earlier.
> I was unable to fix this bluescreening issue.  Maybe someone here has a fix
> for that.
>
> Wine really works well for just about everything else.  It just takes a bit
> of patience to troubleshoot font and dll issues.  The exception is hardware
> drivers that is Windows only.
>
> I used vmware (free server edition), but it should be possible in Virtual
> Box.
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Cristóbal Palmer <cmp at cmpalmer.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Neil L. Little <nllittle at embarqmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>     
>>> 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?
>>>       
>> Virtualbox under Ubuntu is ridiculously easy, especially if you just
>> want NAT on the guest machine.
>>
>>     
>>> 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
>>>       
>> vmware was the way to go for this last time I checked. I have no idea
>> if virtualbox will let you do that. If you're not terribly worried
>> about the effort of re-installing the OS and software, then you could
>> just mount the drive (or an image of the drive), recover your data,
>> and then pull that to the new virtual machine that you install under
>> virtualbox.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Cristóbal M. Palmer
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>> small acts are insufficient."
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