Hardy - Virtualisation with Windows

Steven Davies-Morris sdavmor at systemstheory.net
Wed Jul 16 19:33:11 UTC 2008


NoOp wrote:
> On 07/14/2008 07:22 AM, Jimmy Stewpot wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have been spending the last few hours working to try and get 
>> windows to install on a virtual machine in Hardy. I have made an 
>> ISO of the windows media which I own and put that in the folder. 
>> I then go
>> 
>> virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n fanta -r 512 -f 
>> fanta.img -s 12 -c /tmp/en_win_srv_2003_r2_standard_vl_cd1.iso 
>> --vnc --accelerate --noautoconsole --os-type windows --os-variant
>>  win2k
>> 
>> I have tried several different variants all being vista/xp/win2k 
>> all of which fail. It seems to just hang when its trying to boot 
>> from "hard disk" even though I have specified CDROM as the boot 
>> method in virt-manager.
>> 
>> Has anyone seen this issue in the past or could anyone give me 
>> further advice.
> 
> My recommendation is to try VirtualBox: http://www.virtualbox.org/
>  There is a opensource version (OSE) in the Ubuntu repositories,
> but they do not include USB support. If you require USB support
> then download and install the VB version directly (Binaries (all 
> platforms).
> 
> Note: when you create the virtual machine, be sure to allocate 
> sufficient hard drive space as it a bit tricky to expand the space 
> later on. I initially allocated only 4Gb for Win2KPro and had to 
> jocky things around to expand it to 6GB. If you run into problems 
> VB has a very good mailing list & forum for assistance 
> (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community).

FWIW my vbox virtual is 16gb. And then I store all my important data
(i.e. all the music for past and future Systems Theory albums) in a
vbox shared folder under ubuntu.

I started off with 8gb but it's amazing how quickly that was gobbled
up with programs, etc insider the WinXP virtual.
-- 
Cheers, SDM -- a 21st Century Schizoid Man
Systems Theory internet music project: <www.systemstheory.net>
on MySpace: <www.myspace.com/systemstheory>
on Last FM: <www.last.fm/music/Systems+Theory>
get "Codetalkers" *free* at <www.mikedickson.org.uk/codetalkers>
NP: nothing




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list