Re: Qemu and existing windows partition

2007-07-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 03:57:43PM +0300, user local wrote: > Could you install from another image (borrow it! or an old beta image) on > qemu, and change the product ID? (hope is legal... 2nd thought: hope is not > ilegal :D afterall) I'm trying to avoid illegal stuff, or I could just download a

Re: Qemu and existing windows partition

2007-07-11 Thread user local
Could you install from another image (borrow it! or an old beta image) on qemu, and change the product ID? (hope is legal... 2nd thought: hope is not ilegal :D afterall) Stan Păpușă

Re: Qemu and existing windows partition

2007-07-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Baron wrote: There is only one virtual machine that can do such a thing and that is Parallels and that on an Intel Mac. This is because both the Mac and Windows OS's have the same hardware installed. Not opensourse. VMs and Emulators (Qemu and VirtualBox are emulators) present their own

Re: Qemu and existing windows partition

2007-07-10 Thread tejas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 And there are also some tools for removing drivers and similar things from Windows in Windows Support Tools.[1] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=49ae8576-9bb9-4126-9761-ba8011fabf38&displaylang=en Andrew Sackville-West yazmış:

Re: Qemu and existing windows partition

2007-07-10 Thread David Baron
There is only one virtual machine that can do such a thing and that is Parallels and that on an Intel Mac. This is because both the Mac and Windows OS's have the same hardware installed. Not opensourse. VMs and Emulators (Qemu and VirtualBox are emulators) present their own hardware configurati

Re: Qemu and existing windows partition

2007-07-09 Thread Aenn Seidhe Priest
Here's a document describing the caveats of a Windows-to-Virtualbox migration: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they h

Re: Qemu and existing windows partition

2007-07-09 Thread Aenn Seidhe Priest
Alternately, there's an Open Source version of Virtualbox, a virtualisation machine which runs much smoother than QEmu, http://www.virtualbox.org It does tend to eat serious amounts of memory, but for a box with 512 MBs (256 MBs allocated to the virtual machine, plus handling and VRAM) it shouldn'

Re: Qemu and existing windows partition

2007-07-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:51:31PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I apologize if this has already been discussed to death. I did do multiple > searches on phrases like "existing partition" but didn't find what I'm > hoping exists. > > The box I'm typing on, like most cheap PCs, came with Windows Home

Qemu and existing windows partition

2007-07-09 Thread Carl Fink
I apologize if this has already been discussed to death. I did do multiple searches on phrases like "existing partition" but didn't find what I'm hoping exists. The box I'm typing on, like most cheap PCs, came with Windows Home preinstalled, but no installation disks, just "restore" disks to repr