On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:57, Barry wrote: > From the command line,,, diskdrake& > > As someone else said, qemu for windows - no rebooting, use a RAW image > so you can mount the .img file, and make a backup of the .img file so no > more pain reinstalling win when it crashes. I use this to run pagemaker > & have seen myob also running. With qemu not running, mount the .img > file and t/f data files in the normal way. 2 alternative setups should > handle win98 & xp, dos should also be possible But people should be aware of the considerable speed penalty when running any program under/inside an emulator. Use of the kqemu kernel module is said to improve matters, but its installation is far from simple. It is claimed [1] that it's possible to run many operating sytsems inside the qemu emulation. That said, I wonder what people have managed in practice?
Specifically, has anybody got either XP-Home or XP-Pro to run, however slowly? [1] http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ossupport.html -- CS
