Re: Qemu and existing windows partition
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And there are also some tools for removing drivers and similar things
from Windows in Windows Support Tools.[1]
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=49ae8576-9bb9-4126-9761-ba8011fabf38&displaylang=en
Andrew Sackville-West yazmış:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:51:31PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
>> I apologize if this has already been discussed to death. I did do multiple
>> searches on phrases like "existing partition" but didn't find what I'm
>> hoping exists.
>>
>> The box I'm typing on, like most cheap PCs, came with Windows Home
>> preinstalled, but no installation disks, just "restore" disks to reproduce
>> the exact original disk image. When I installed Debian, I shrank the
>> original Windows partition and never booted it again.
>>
>> I need to use Windows software occasionally for work, so I'd like to set up
>> qemu, but all instructions I can find for it require the installation CD,
>> which I don't have. Is there any reason I can't just define /dev/hda (real)
>> as hda (for qemu)? If not, it's only 15 gig--what if I just dd a copy of
>> it?
>
> i've played around with this a bit, but had no real success. The
> problem is that usually windows will not boot on the "new hardware"
> of qemu. There are a couple of work-arounds. One I've tried, and
> failed with, is to make a full system backup using windows tools,
> including the registry state. You then do a basic installation (this
> of course requires a cd) to your qemu image and then restore the
> system from the backup which you've placed somewhere where qemu can
> get at it. As I said, this failed for me, after multiple tries. The
> other option is to prepare windows for new hardware. There are a
> couple ways to do this using various versions of windows. The process
> is that essentially, you have to get windows into a state where it
> will boot from and recognise new hardware, as if you were changing the
> motherboard. THere are many google hits on this. The one I find
> intriguing, but haven't tried, is to do the following within windows:
>
> remove any specialised disk drivers and replace them with the windows
> default drivers for ide disks.
>
> remove any specialised pci bridge drivers and replace them with the
> window default drivers.
>
> remove the vga driver.
>
> reboot in the new system and it should come up and you can then
> install proper drivers. I guess windows has some "generic" ide, pci
> and vga drivers that will allow you to boot from most hardware.
>
> This method seems to make sense to me BUT it has the problem of
> changing your windows install into a state where it may not boot AT
> ALL. So definitely dd it first.
>
> hth
>
> A
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