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From Issue #166
February 2008

Feb 01, 2008  By Dashamir Hoxha
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Running Linux inside Windows using QEMU.

Resources

QEMU Open-Source Processor Emulator: fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu

QEMU on Windows: www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win

OpenVPN Download: openvpn.net/download.html

Using Tap: www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/TapWin32-en.html

How to Use Network: www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/HowToNetwork-en.html

qemu-0.9.0-windows.zip: www.h6.dion.ne.jp/~kazuw/qemu-win/qemu-0.9.0-windows.zip

QEMU Download: fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html

EasyPHP Download: www.easyphp.org/telechargements.php3

FileZilla Download: sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21558

Subversion Download: subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=260&expandFolder=74

PuTTY Download: www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Dashamir Hoxha has been a Linux specialist for many years, but occasionally, he has to use Windows as well. He has experience with server administration and network configuration.

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Booting Windows from Linux via Qemu

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Submitted by jmit7521 on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 22:50.

The article is great and I successfully booted my Linux installation via Qemu. I am interested in booting my Windows installation from the Linux side using Qemu. If you have any suggestions please post them.

Thanks,
JPM

I have tried (months ago)

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Submitted by Dashamir (not verified) on Mon, 02/04/2008 - 08:34.

I have tried (months ago) with something like: '-hda /dev/hda' , and I remember that I have failed.
Anyway, a QEMU virtual machine has different "physical" devices compared with your real machine.
So, if the windows partition is booted inside it, I guess that it is going to find "new hardware" etc.
It is something similar to removing the hard disk and booting it inside another machine.
While linux is flexible enough to endure this kind of migration, I am not sure about windows, it has
to be tried.

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