Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Mike Cloaked
Can someone point me to a good step by step howto to set up Windows XP installed from an iso in a VM in F12 using kvm. There are some XP applications that only work in XP itself rather than in wine or Crossover. I have not tinkered with virtualised machines before so this is a learning curve for

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Saturday 28 November 2009 11:21:51 Mike Cloaked wrote: Can someone point me to a good step by step howto to set up Windows XP installed from an iso in a VM in F12 using kvm. There are some XP applications that only work in XP itself rather than in wine or Crossover. I have not tinkered

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone point me to a good step by step howto to set up Windows XP  installed from an iso in a VM in F12 using kvm.  There are some XP  applications that only work in XP itself rather than in wine or Crossover. I

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Hiisi
2009/11/28 Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com: --SNIP-- I can also recommend VirtualBox. I am running XP on VirtualBox, which is fast and simple. Paul Can you, virtualisation gurus, point me out how to set up shared folder in VirtualBox for guest Window$ XP? It looks like an easy task but I'm

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Hiisi very-c...@rambler.ru wrote: I can also recommend VirtualBox. I am running XP on VirtualBox, which is fast and simple. Can you, virtualisation gurus, point me out how to set up shared folder in VirtualBox for guest Window$ XP? It looks like an easy task

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Hiisi
2009/11/28 Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Hiisi very-c...@rambler.ru wrote: --SNIP-- Can you, virtualisation gurus, point me out how to set up shared folder in VirtualBox for guest Window$ XP? It looks like an easy task but I'm unable to see it anywhere from

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Mike Cloaked
Hiisi wrote: 2009/11/28 Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Hiisi very-c...@rambler.ru wrote: --SNIP-- Can you, virtualisation gurus, point me out how to set up shared folder in VirtualBox for guest Window$ XP? It looks like an easy task but I'm unable to see

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)
On 28/11/09 14:49, Mike Cloaked wrote: --snip-- Interesting replies - thank you - but noticeable that the fedora provided facility of kvm has been mentioned by no-one! Additionally can you experts tell me whether you can use usbkeys in the VM, and also whether or not there is communication

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 06:49 -0800, Mike Cloaked wrote: Interesting replies - thank you - but noticeable that the fedora provided facility of kvm has been mentioned by no-one! In my opinion, kvm is not quite ready for prime time. First of all, it doesn't work at all unless your system has

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:49:44 -0800 (PST) Mike Cloaked wrote: Interesting replies - thank you - but noticeable that the fedora provided facility of kvm has been mentioned by no-one! I'm running XP under KVM (obviously you need KVM capable hardware), and it works fine, but when installing under

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Greg Woods wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 06:49 -0800, Mike Cloaked wrote: Interesting replies - thank you - but noticeable that the fedora provided facility of kvm has been mentioned by no-one! In my opinion, kvm is not quite ready for prime time. First of all, it doesn't work at all unless

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:49:44 -0800 (PST) Mike Cloaked wrote: Interesting replies - thank you - but noticeable that the fedora provided facility of kvm has been mentioned by no-one! I'm running XP under KVM (obviously you need KVM capable hardware), and it works fine, but

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 12:37 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Greg Woods wrote: Just to clarify, are you talking about KVM or how it behaves with a layer of libvirt added? I'm talking about using it through the GUI provided with Fedora. Since in our environment our operations staff has to be

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Saturday 28 November 2009 14:49:44 Mike Cloaked wrote: Interesting replies - thank you - but noticeable that the fedora provided facility of kvm has been mentioned by no-one! As others can say, it requires appropriate hardware, and is a bit rough on the edges. Other than that, the user

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Sam Sharpe
Additionally can you experts tell me whether you can use usbkeys in the VM, In order to have full support for USB you need to use the closed-source VirtualBox from SUN Or... you can use KVM and Fedora's built-in Virt Manager. It does support USB and PCI device passthrough. I'm not sure where

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Saturday 28 November 2009 19:01:22 Sam Sharpe wrote: Additionally can you experts tell me whether you can use usbkeys in the VM, In order to have full support for USB you need to use the closed-source VirtualBox from SUN Or... you can use KVM and Fedora's built-in Virt Manager. It

Re: Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

2009-11-28 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Sam Sharpe lists.red...@samsharpe.net wrote: ...snip.. My advice would be to try using Virt-Manager in Fedora (providing you have recent hardware) and see how you get on. It really really isn't that difficult. If it's not working for you, then investigate