Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
I'm trying to avoid booting into Windows XP for several reasons, but need to run TurboTax and Internet Explorer. TurboTax will not run in Wine/Crossover Office. So far I've tried VMware Server 2, doesn't support setup of raw disks (i.e. actual partitions, not virtual disks, a file on the host filesystem), though may be able to run legacy setups. And VMware Server 1.0.8 sets up okay but won't boot. Somewhere I ran across a note that it cannot boot from SCSI raw disks, only IDE ones. And since some kernel update, even ATA disks appear to be SCSI disks (the /dev/hdX => /dev/sdX change). Booting the virtual machine shows the BIOS screen, then GRUB, then nothing: no activity, no prompt, no echoing the keyboard. Why a Windows partition should display part of the GRUB console is beyond me.
Has anyone successed in running a Windows XP Pro partition in some kind of virtual machine, VMware or other? This is an older Intel CPU without virtualization hardware support. From /proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 9 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 1600.000 cache size : 1024 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe up est tm2 bogomips : 3192.00 clflush size : 64
TIA, Jeffrey
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