Re: [LAU] Linux/Windows dichotomy

After recent successes ( http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2010-October/029552.h… http://nielsmayer.com/meego/meego-handset-ia32-1.0.80.9.20100706.1-sdk-pre0… ) getting meego running under Fedora using http://www.linux-kvm.org/ and http://www.qemu.org/ I was looking up how to solve the networking/routing issue when I found this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo Which inspired me to try it out... following these directions, e.g. gnulem-105-~/windows-qemu> qemu-img create -f qcow windows.img 6G Formatting 'windows.img', fmt=qcow size=6442450944 encryption=off gnulem-109-~/windows-qemu> qemu -localtime -cdrom /dev/dvd -m 1024 -boot d windows.img results in an ever-growing file -rw-r--r-- 1 npm npm 632M 2010-10-27 18:50 windows.img And a reminder of why i hate windows -- installs take forever and require multiple reboots: http://nielsmayer.com/meego/loading-win-xp-in-qemu.png http://nielsmayer.com/meego/setup-win-xp-in-qemu.png http://nielsmayer.com/meego/still-installing-win-xp-after-reboot-1.png ... and hopefully, eventually, in a few hours (the "36 minutes" from the installer is bogus) I'll have my own legal copy of win xp running on linux (from an old system restoration disk i had from an old and no longer working laptop).... of course, to be able to use windows, without puking all over the DOS shell, I'll have to install cygwin. Which is pretty perverse: Running windows in a kvm so you can have xemacs, bash, xterms from windows on linux..... It would be interesting to see how well Windows audio production programs run using this technique instead of Wine. A few more interesting links... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SeamlessVirtualization http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2062234#post2062234 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~djw/qemu.html -- Niels http://nielsmayer.com