From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 13 04:57:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F72916A41F; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 04:57:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kellers@njit.edu) Received: from mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0383D43D46; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 04:57:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kellers@njit.edu) Received: from [192.168.1.103] (ool-4353d5dd.dyn.optonline.net [67.83.213.221]) by mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IPV006M4N3ZBRV7@mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:57:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:57:22 -0500 From: Tim Kellers In-reply-to: <20051113052928.C409@www.pukruppa.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200511122357.25710.kellers@njit.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline References: <200511122303.20331.kellers@njit.edu> <20051113052928.C409@www.pukruppa.net> User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: "P.U.Kruppa" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qemu tutorial? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 04:57:37 -0000 On Saturday 12 November 2005 11:31 pm, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Tim Kellers wrote: > > I'm feeling a bit _thick_ here. I can seem to get through my brain the > > process of creating an .img file with qemu that will boot. > > > > I can create the .img file, but how do I get an OS on it? > > > > I've got a feeling this is a simple thing, but I'm apparently too simple > > to see the path to a bootable image disk. > > > > Could someone point me to a "Howto" for creating bootable .img files for > > qemu? > > This actually is a howto for qemu on Ubuntu Linux, but if you > skip the Ubuntu specific installation part, it describes how to > get win2k running > > http://codepoets.co.uk/docs/qemu_windows2000_on_ubuntu_linux_howto > > Hope that helps, > > Uli. > > > Thanks > > > > Tim Kellers > > CPE/NJIT Wow! Thanks for that URL. I popped my XP CD into the drive, ran the command "qemu -hda qemu_basic.img -cdrom /dev/cd0 -boot d -win2k-hack -m 256" and Voila, XP is installing! I do have dd(1) images of my Windows laptops and I was hoping I could use one of those files to simply boot the emulator into XP, but I think that project will have to wait until another day. Now if I can just get qemu to emulate my Apple IIGS :-) Tim