Virtualisation on F7 - I give up

Andras Simon szajmi at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 16:28:12 UTC 2007


On 6/12/07, John Lagrue <jlagrue at gmail.com> wrote:
> No matter what docs I read, whether I use qemu-kvm or use the Virtual
> Machine Manager, or use virt-install, I cannot get WinXP installed on
> a guest. It just consistently gives me the BSoD.

What problems did you run into with qemu-kvm? What hardware do you
run? Maybe someone on this list can help.  Since I did an XP install
this way, I'm reasonably sure it can be done.

>
> It seems that all the effort is in Xen for those who want to run this
> on the server level to supply a gazillion Linux VMs. Nothing else
> seems to work, and as for some reason Xen refuses even to exist on my
> F7 I can't try that - not that it would work with Windows anyway, from
> my understanding.
> 	
> How do I bypass all this stuff and get vmware installed?

FWIW, I installed VMWare WS 6.0 _without_ applying the
	vmware-any-any-update109 patch, and it works quite well (I haven't
installed XP in it though). Just be sure to remove kvm-related kernel
modules before powering up a virtual machine.

Andras




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