On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 07:54 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 05:00:00PM +0530, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
I have two partitions in my PC. I have installed F10 on one partition and Windows XP on the second partition. Now, can I run the XP as guest OS on F10 using VM? and how?
Set up a VM, and for the disk device, select "Normal disk partition" and point to the device node that contains your Windows system. If you're not sure what that is, run:
su -c 'fdisk -l /dev/sda'
(Provide the root password at the prompt.) Look for the device that contains an NTFS file system; this is the one you'll use in your VM guest setup. I'm using KVM on F10, but I think this is fairly standard.
Does this actually work? I thought Windows XP was very picky about the hardware it's on, so, at least as far as I understand it, it will complain that hardware has changed when it's run in the VM (if it boots at all).
I normally recommend separate system partitions for *real* Windows XP and *virtualized* Windows XP, but maybe my information is dated.
Jonathan