Re: running qemu on an AMD64

2007-05-25 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> Could I use Linux to copy the Windows program exe files etc to the >> Windows fake partition created by qemu and then go into Windows under >> qemu and then get it to install the software? > > For many pieces of software that scheme would work, but

Re: running qemu on an AMD64

2007-05-25 Thread pinniped
(quote) Could I use Linux to copy the Windows program exe files etc to the Windows fake partition created by qemu and then go into Windows under qemu and then get it to install the software? (end quote) For many pieces of software that scheme would work, but for "copy protected" discs it will

Re: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98......

2007-05-25 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I am emailing to thank people for helping me with qemu Windows 98 installed reasonably OK on qemu on my AMD64 machine.. There is one small problem which may reflect my newness to qemu. Once I had installed Windows 98, I then tried to load some software on to it from

Re: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98......

2007-05-20 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Fothergill wrote: > There were some references to running qemu on AMD64 but mostly indirect ones. > > Has anyone tried this? Yes, works just fine. > At a dumb level, is qemu smart enough to "fake" the 32 bit environment on my > 64 bit box

Re: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98......

2007-05-20 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 20:30 +0200, Michael G. Hansen wrote: > KQemu used to be proprietary and was thus not in Debian. But as of > version 1.3.0-pre11 it is under the GPL and it is in lenny/sid. You can > also grab it from http://www.qemu.org There is a binary in the package > and a wrapper around

Re: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98......

2007-05-20 Thread Michael G. Hansen
Michael Fothergill wrote: >> From: "Michael G. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Michael Fothergill wrote: >> > 2. You need a blank disk image ("harddisk"). This is like adding a >> blank >> > disk to the virtual computer that QEMU creates. Use qemu-img to >> create a >> > 3Gb blank disk image: >> > >

Re: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98......

2007-05-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: "Michael G. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98.. Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 18:33:45 +0200 Michael Fothergill wrote: > The instructions for a 32 bit i386 Linux host guesting wh

Re: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98......

2007-05-20 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Sunday 20 May 2007 18:00:28 Michael Fothergill, vous avez écrit : > Dear Debianists, > > I am running Etch r0 AMD64 on an AMD64 Sempron 3200 box with an 80GB drive. > I notice that qemu 0.8.2-4 is available from browsing synaptic. > > I also saw some other software like qemuctl and qemu-launcher

Re: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98......

2007-05-20 Thread Michael G. Hansen
Michael Fothergill wrote: > I am running Etch r0 AMD64 on an AMD64 Sempron 3200 box with an 80GB drive. > I notice that qemu 0.8.2-4 is available from browsing synaptic. > > I also saw some other software like qemuctl and qemu-launcher. > > I went on the qemu web site and I nosed around a little

running qemu on an AMD64 box to guest Windows 98......

2007-05-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
Sorry I should have titled the email running qemu on an AMD64 box to guest Windows 98 NOT host Windows 98.. From: "Michael Fothergill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98.. Date: Sun, 20 May 200

running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98......

2007-05-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I am running Etch r0 AMD64 on an AMD64 Sempron 3200 box with an 80GB drive. I notice that qemu 0.8.2-4 is available from browsing synaptic. I also saw some other software like qemuctl and qemu-launcher. I went on the qemu web site and I nosed around a little. There were instr