From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 28 13:03:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA7E16A4B3; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:03:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABF6344420; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:53:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com (vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com [192.168.2.61]) (SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:53:08 -0500 id 00056444.456C3134.0000FE8C Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:53:08 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: "mato" Message-Id: <20061128075308.7f391fdc.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <20061128121353.M96221@users.sf.net> References: <45373B31.6020200@pobox.sk> <6a1189840610190209q39220af1m1bb3bca1f7378008@mail.gmail.com> <20061128081856.M33318@pobox.sk> <20061128064043.a8245e8e.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20061128121353.M96221@users.sf.net> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running windows applications and making use of existing ms windows installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:03:25 -0000 In response to "mato" : > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:40:43 -0500, Bill Moran wrote > > "mato" wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:09:50 +0200, albi albinootje wrote > > > > On 10/19/06, martinko wrote: > > > > > > > > > I've been reading for some time about VMWare, Wine, Qemu, Bochs and some > > > > > others, but I'm still not sure which one would (best) fit my needs: > > > > > > > > > > I've got a dual boot and I would like to make use of existing Windows > > > > > (XP) installation, not having to create a new virtual disk/system and > > > > > install everything from scratch. > > > > > > > > > > Can I use existing Windows installation with some of the existing > > > > > "emulation" software ?? > > > > > > > > you didn't mention whether you're using NTFS or not on the windows- > > > > partition, if you do use NTFS then you already have a problem > > > > because you can't write to that partition by default (not sure how > > > > far the rw-development is on FreeBSD) > > > > > > > > vmware server gives you the possibility to use "raw partitions", > > > > i've tried that with a linux-partition on an external disc within vmware > > > > > > > > wine is also a possibility, but wine will by default let you start > > > > only 1 app, YMMV > > > > > > > > last time i tried qemu it didn't support "raw partition" access afair > > > > According to the docs, it does support "raw" partition images, which > > you should be able to create using dd. I haven't tried this, though. > > Do you think I could supply raw disk device directly to Qemu ?? It's not _designed_ to work that way, but given the fact that "everything is a file" in Unix, it's entirely possible that it will work. Definitely make a backup before trying. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.