On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Paul <paul(a)all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,
I've been trying to install XP using qemu for almost 24 hours now. I
have one specific task that I need XP for (Winforms design). I can't get
Visual C# 2005 to work under Wine or Crossover Office so I need to get
something working.
I would recommend VirtualBox over qemu. You don't need hardware
virtualization support in VB. Or try KVM, but VB seems pretty easy to
setup.
I have a shed load of space on a secondary drive, so I was thinking
of
making a 20Gb partition on it (as FAT32), booting from an XP disc and
installing onto there.
I would recommend NTFS over FAT32. Keep in mind NTFS is read/write
supported in Fedora.
I don't know if it will be a problem installing to a secondary
drive
rather than primary, so advise is needed here. Is it safe to do this or
am I going to trash things by doing it?
Be very careful. I think XP will automatically write the NTLDR
(Windows boot system) to the primary drive and primary partition even
if you install elsewhere. So you might possible destroy your Fedora
GRUB (your Fedora data/partitions should be safe).
You might consider unplugging the first drive when installing XP. So
you don't accidentally overwrite something on the main drive. That
being said it might be least destructive to have XP on the first
partition on the 2nd drive (assuming that's possible).
You can always later use GRUB to chainload. Adding XP to boot from
GRUB is very simple 2 lines to '/boot/grub/grub.conf'
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
hd1 = 2nd drive (hd0 would be first)
0 = first partition
I have not done this in a long time, but was successful in the past.
--
Mauriat Miranda
http://www.mjmwired.net/linux