SuSE QEMU & Windows XP guest
I want to switch all my computers to SuSE, but there are still some programs I need, which are running under Windows. I would like to find somebody who is using SuSE as host and Windows XP as guest, who can give me some hints. Some of the questions are: 1. How to set it up? 2. Can I do a pre-work and set it up under XP first and use the image than later under SuSE? 3. I have some programs, e.g. Rosetta Stones which requires a key which is different with each installation. How will this be with QEMU? If I use this QEMU image on another computer? and if I use this image (if possible) under another host? 4. I need to have network access 5. I need to have USB support (camera, card readers, scanner, phone, iPod), which I cannot yet or some never move to Linux. 6. I want to use samba with the host and with my other servers. 7. I want to use for all kind of "data" a hard disk (or space on a server), so that the images are always "clean" and can be reused without data. Personal settings are ok. I hope I can get many hints to get this transition soon. bye Ronald
On 9/27/06, Ronald Wiplinger
I want to switch all my computers to SuSE, but there are still some programs I need, which are running under Windows.
I would like to find somebody who is using SuSE as host and Windows XP as guest, who can give me some hints.
Set up vmware, installation of guest os is same as you would install on a PC. You can use the same image on any PC running vmplayer(free software). You can set up network between guest and host, and use samba and other network services. However minimum RAM you would require is 512MB, speed is quite good too. If you have a PC with intel VT or AMD pacifica, you can use xen and install xp in that. I am not sure about all your usb stuff though. -J
Qemu works very porrly with Win 2000 & XP guests. I recommend use Win 95/98 guest. for Qemu. For XP, use VMware.
Jigish Gohil wrote:
On 9/27/06, Ronald Wiplinger
wrote: I want to switch all my computers to SuSE, but there are still some programs I need, which are running under Windows.
I would like to find somebody who is using SuSE as host and Windows XP as guest, who can give me some hints.
Set up vmware, installation of guest os is same as you would install on a PC. You can use the same image on any PC running vmplayer(free software). You can set up network between guest and host, and use samba and other network services.
However minimum RAM you would require is 512MB, speed is quite good too.
If you have a PC with intel VT or AMD pacifica, you can use xen and install xp in that.
Thanks for your info I use an AMD on my desktop, and XEN was no way for me. I gave up after several weeks of not being able to run it satisfied. During my frustration I came across QEMU and therefore I asked. VMware is a good choice too. I will try that! Do you know if the same image can be used on different OS???? As mentioned above the main purpose for now is to switch from XP to SuSE. I want to install XP as guest on XP first, evaluate all what I need and than backup the image (QEMU or/and VMware), install SuSE on my desktop and use the backuped image. Is that possible? BTW, the VMplayer is an interesting thought. I have some questions to that. I assume that VMplayer takes an image of the OS I installed (e.g. XP). Is there a VMplayer for Linux? You mention 512M RAM each concurrent VMplayer would need (multiple XPs), this is no problem, since I have 2 GB RAM. How does this work? I have 2 GB, I start VMplayer with XP, so 512M will be reserved for XP. If I add a second VMplayer with another copy of XP, it will take away another 512 M. When I close one, will the 512M go back to the host, or just when I reboot? bye Ronald Wiplinger
Do you know if the same image can be used on different OS????
Yes, you can use same image across platform, vmplayer is available for windows as well as Linux.
BTW, the VMplayer is an interesting thought. I have some questions to that. I assume that VMplayer takes an image of the OS I installed (e.g. XP). Is there a VMplayer for Linux? You mention 512M RAM each concurrent VMplayer would need (multiple XPs),
That is not a rule, but having 256 MB per image and 256 for the host helps. As far as I understand, the memory allocated to the virtual machine is freed once you switch VM off. It is not very complicated, just give it a go and we are all here to help if you run into any problems. -J
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Alexey Eremenko
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Jigish Gohil
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Ronald Wiplinger