On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 01:50, michael hast wrote:
> Um, I hate to ask any more questions right now considering the
> directions that a couple of my recent ones went, but do any of you guys
> have any pearls of wisdom that you care to share about qemu? I thought
> that I would like to play with it, and I've KPackaged it, but that's
> about as far as I've gotten so far. I'm thinking of installing XP Pro
> within my Debian box, but I would like to play with some live cd's there
> first. Any tips on where to get started with this deal? Thanks. Michael
Hi,
I've spent several days with qemu recently. Good emulator that emulates
full PC but...
It can only access the cdrom and a HD image (hd.img) made with its own
disk image tool or dd command. If you have it access a hard drive, it
wants to access the whole HD and it will overwrite the mbr. I didn't get
it to read just one partition but the man page says it can.
Trying out live CDs is a good use for it but it is slooowwww. I have
used it on a 1.1 Gz Athlon with 1G memory. I booted the MEPIS 3.3.1 CD.
Worked well but took 20 min to get to the desktop. I didn't get the
accelerator working, kqemu, as I use a win4lin custom kernel on FC1.
Qemu is the base technology under Win4Lin. Some kinda conflict.
Enjoy. Read the on-line manuals here:
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ The man pages are the same thing.
--JB
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