Running windows programs under Linux

[Doug]

On 08/28/2014 10:09 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:40:38 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 08/28/2014 02:51 PM, NoOp wrote:
>>> On 08/25/2014 03:59 AM, BONNET, Frank wrote:
>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM
>>>>
>>> Perhaps you might be forgetting something?
>>> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Installation#Pre-installation_checklist>
>>>
>>> Not all processors support vmx/svm:
>>> $ egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
>>> 0
>>>
>>> You're sending an Ubuntu newbie off to kvm without checking to see if
>>> his machine will even run kvm...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Been reading this thread for a while. My distro doesn't provide
>> KVM. Is there a source of this in rpm format? And where would
> Well, it is part of CentOS 6 (64-bit only):
>
> sauron.deepsoft.com% dir /centos64*/*/*/*kvm*
> /centos64x86_64/1/Packages/qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.355.el6.x86_64.rpm
> /centos64x86_64/1/Packages/qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.355.el6.x86_64.rpm
>
> I would guess it is in 64-bit Fedora and there probably srpms available that
> could be rpmbuild to suit.
>
>> I find a list of processors that can use it?
> I suspect that most (all?) modern multi-core 64-processors would support KVM,
> but I don't know for sure:
>
> sauron.deepsoft.com% egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
> 4
> sauron.deepsoft.com% head /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family      : 16
> model           : 4
> model name      : AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 945 Processor
> stepping        : 3
> cpu MHz         : 3348.594
> cache size      : 512 KB
> physical id     : 0
> siblings        : 1
>
> newserver.wendellfreelibrary.org%  egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
> 2
> newserver.wendellfreelibrary.org% head /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 60
> model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G3220 @ 3.00GHz
> stepping        : 3
> cpu MHz         : 800.000
> cache size      : 3072 KB
> physical id     : 0
> siblings        : 2
>
> sauron.deepsoft.com is running CentOS 5 and xen,
> newserver.wendellfreelibrary.org is running CentOS 6 and kvm.  Both systems
> have at least one Ubuntu VM installed.  The Ubuntu VM running on newserver
> runs 24/7 and is a server itself (tftp and nfs).  The Ubuntu VMs on
> sauron.deepsoft.com are only used as build boxes and are only run on an
> as-needed basis (eg when I need build something for Ubuntu).
>
> I suspect that when I upgrade sauron to CentOS 6 (I am in no hurry to do so),
> it will happily run KVM.  (Or by that time I may have upgraded to newer
> hardware -- the future is so hard to predict...)
>
>
Question: If I were to obtain kvm and install it on my 64-bit pclos-kde,
would a 32-bit (only) Windows XP program run on it? The reason I
want to do this is because I have an old copy of AutoCAD-LT, which
I would like to run. It only runs on 32-bit Windows--could I install
32-bit XP onto kvm-64-bit? I no longer have a real 32-bit XP
installed anywhere, and I can run the program in Win 7-64 via
the XP emulator that's built-in to that, but frankly, that option
is a pain. Also, that's set up on a laptop, which is not exactly
ideal for a drafting program!

Thanx for you inputs--doug