On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Gunter Ohrner wrote: > David Baron wrote: > >> I'm currently experimenting with a Windows XP installation in a primary > >> partition of my harddisk which I'm able to boot natively and using qemu > >> / kvm from within a Linux host. > > > > Really? How? > > Rather simple: > > kvm -no-reboot -usb -m 512 -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda /dev/sda > > I installed Win XP natively using its integrated drivers, then booted it > within kvm where it detected all emulated hardware, then rebootet natively > and installed all specialised drivers for my notebook. > > I've switched between booting natively and within kvm for testing purposes > the last two days and Win XP works flawlessly in either environment. > > I feared that the different hardware would give trouble, but apparently Win > XP just installed two sets of drivers and always selects the matching ones. > > I just don't know how to deal with this stupid product activation. :-/ > Once you have both driver sets available, XP should come up. I would expect the "device manager" to flag the "native" set with "?" under kvm and the Qemu/KVM set when booting directly.
Let us know if you can get it up this way with Vbox which presents wierd HW using it "guest additions". Also, if you use programs (i.e. audio sutff) which select HW both ways, you may have registry or .ini file conflicts. Same idea as one running a natively installed program under Wine (older wine could touch the native registry, newer ones thankfully stay off, not so local .ini files!). _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
