While we're on the subject of virtualization: What's the best VM to use to emulate an ancient Pentium laptop running Windows 95? The hardware isn't quite dead yet. It has a floppy disk, which it will try to boot from if plugged in, a CD reader, and ethernet port (on a PCMCIA card (Did I remember the acronym from another era correctly?)), and a grand total of 16M of memory. Total disk space might be around 2G, though oart of this is probably a hidden partition that WIndows uses for its own secret purpose (which secret purpose would probably have to be preseved in emulation).
And what's the best way of making a hard disk image from the existing laptop that the VM is likely to boot from? Presumably I'd have to boot some very minimal Linux from floppy and dd from /def/hda through the net to another machine or something like that -- boot track, partition table, and all. And then add whatever wrapping the VM software want. Or perhaps copying all the files would be sufficient? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
