[TriLUG] Running Winders XP in Linux

[Roy Vestal]

I use Sun xVM VirtualBox on my linux box (CentOS 5). I am able to use 
local disk partition of XP as well as a VM of XP. It has a "Seemless 
Mode" similar to the way Parallels does on Mac.

BTW, Seemless is available under Windows and Mac versions too :)

Neil L. Little wrote:
> 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
>>> "Small acts of humanity amid the chaos of inhumanity provide hope. But
>>> small acts are insufficient."
>>>    -- Paul Rusesabagina
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