Anyone know qemu?

[Kent Borg]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:00:22PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> That's not the way it goes. You basically create a *blank* disk image,
> start qemu, make it boot from a CD (or ISO) and then install Windows (or
> whatever OS) on that disk, just as if you were installing a real computer
> from scratch.

I don't have a Windows install disk, I have an OEM installation
already in my hard disk.  (I have a restore disk, but it has ghost
images--not a regular install.)

Is there a way to get Qemu to boot the Windows already on hda1?  (I
have never booted it before.)  Is there any hope of running an XP
partition from both Qemu (for many things) and as a native boot (for
very hardware-specific things)?  Or will MS get too upset at such
different computers?

Not that I really miss XP, Ubuntu is pretty great.


-kb, the Kent whose notebook will even suspend.