On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 08:05:33PM +0300, Linas ??virblis wrote: > David Baron wrote: > > > Qemu is a fairly simple virtualizer. Since a virtual machine sport differing > > "hardware" (emulated) than the real one, running off a real filesystem is > > kind of dangerous. Feeding qemu the real thing is rejected. It will play off > > diskettes and live CDs. > > QEMU can run of real file systems just fine - just point it to a device > file instead of disk image. Of course, you should not expect it to run > an OS that was not installed trough QEMU itself. I've followed this thread a bit and maybe you all can help me. I've got a winxp partition that I have to boot into only occaisionally to get some archived data from an old quickbooks file. Can I use one of these solutions to do that? or am I better waiting for wine to support quickbooks (not yet afaik). performance is not an issue, just like to avoid reboots and then printing or saving to a common partition and the like. A
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