Sorry I should have titled the email running qemu on an AMD64 box to guest
Windows 98 NOT host Windows 98..
From: "Michael Fothergill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98......
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 16:00:28 +0000
Dear Debianists,
I am running Etch r0 AMD64 on an AMD64 Sempron 3200 box with an 80GB
drive.
I notice that qemu 0.8.2-4 is available from browsing synaptic.
I also saw some other software like qemuctl and qemu-launcher.
I went on the qemu web site and I nosed around a little. There were
instructions for running qemu on an 32 bit processor under linux
then guesting e.g. Windows XP (32 bit) on top of the Linux.
There were some references to running qemu on AMD64 but mostly
indirect ones.
Has anyone tried this?
At a dumb level, is qemu smart enough to "fake" the 32 bit
environment on my 64 bit box running Debian AMD64 OS that MS Windows
98 would be happy to run on or would it only let you run a 64 bit
version of MSWindows on a 64 bit machine like mine?
The instructions for a 32 bit i386 Linux host guesting what I assume
is 32 bit Windows taken from the quick start pages from the qemu web
pages are as follows:
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Windows guest on Linux host
1. Download QEMU Binary distribution for linux-i386 and install it.
Installation is simply done by extracting the contents of the tar
archive in root directory ("/"). It will extract its contents to
/usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share.
(In Debian I will just install the qemu package with synaptic).
2. You need a blank disk image ("harddisk"). This is like adding a
blank disk to the virtual computer that QEMU creates. Use qemu-img
to create a 3Gb blank disk image:
qemu-img create -f qcow c.img 3G
The last argument is the size of the image (3G). This 3G will be the
maximum end size of the image file. It will grow while adding
contents (writing files to the harddisk). A fresh WinXP installation
will use e.g. ~1.7Gb. For more information on creating a blank image
see Disk Images.
3. When you install an OS on a real computer you normally boot an
installation CD/DVD or an existing image. We'll do the same with the
virtual computer. Here you have two options: Either you use a real
installation CD/DVD or you have an install ISO image. Depending on
this, the next steps are slightly different.
* If you have an installation CD, put the CD (e.g. Windows
installation CD) into the real CD drive of your host computer. Then
run
qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda c.img -m 256 -boot d
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Would these commands work OK in the AMD64 world?
Your comments on the merits of qemuctl and qemu-launcher would be
appreciated.
Regards
Michael Fothergill
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