Re: [LAU] Linux/Windows dichotomy

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer(a)gmail.com> wrote: Got it all running, networking works, sound seems to work, http://cygwin.com is all setup (SSH, xemacs, bash, xterm) && still updating a zillion microsoft security updates to "Win XP Pro Media Center Edition" (it's a legal copy of windows XP from an old broken laptop, so i re-registered and now ms-updates work within the virtual windows). Eventually, I'll fire up an old copy of Native Instruments "traktor" 3 and see how well audio actually works. Seems easy enough to send audio to a digital out on the default ALSA card where windows sounds output, and run that into the digital input of a jackd-controlled card under linux... The nice thing about using Media Center Edition of XP is tablet/touchscreen support. With that, you can skip the mouse-grab typical of normal qemu runs and get a normal window/mouse interaction with the rest of the desktop. See qemu(1) manual page, and launch script below for details. Result: http://nielsmayer.com/meego/qemu-finally-running-winxp.png ..................................................... #!/bin/sh ## (1) "-smb /media/disk" ## see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo#Sharing%20Files%2… ## on windows, do: "net use e: \\10.0.2.2\qemu_share" ## ## (2) "-usb -usbdevice tablet" ## see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo#USB%20Tablet%20Em… ## allows use of qemu w/o locking the mouse in the window and ctl-alt to unlock... ## ## (3) "-redir tcp:3389::3389" ## see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SeamlessVirtualization ## ## (4) "-vga std" ## "std" ## Standard VGA card with Bochs VBE extensions. If ## your guest OS supports the VESA 2.0 VBE extensions ## (e.g. Windows XP) and if you want to use high ## resolution modes (>= 1280x1024x16) then you should ## use this option. ## export QEMU_AUDIO_DRV="alsa" cd /media exec qemu -soundhw sb16 -localtime -smb disk -usb -usbdevice tablet -vga std -redir tcp:3389::3389 -m 1024 ~/windows-qemu/windows.img ........................................ -- Niels http://nielsmayer.com PS: Dumb question: does anybody know how to get qemu to start up from an actual disk, rather than a disk image? I'd like to plug in my old dead laptop's drive via USB and have qemu boot directly off that drive, giving me my old windows/linux lapburner (due to 3.4Ghz Pentium 4 CPU) back again. All the docs on qemu i've read talk about using a disk image only, rather than pointing the virtual OS at its own specific disk-drive. Yes, obviously I could DD the whole disk into an image and run that -- if I had enough disk space to hold an image of that disk right now.