[SOLVED] How to Install (Sandbox) XP In Debian Lenny

**nujinini** · 11-12-2009

Hello,

I have fully reinstalled all my distros and got the wireless and flash player working.

Now I am looking forward to this long desire of learning how to install XP in a virtual machine in Debian.

I learned that if I put XP in a "sandbox" or a VM? not quite sure, I will also be protecting my system in case of another virus problem. I heard this will make XP run a little slower but frankly, I don't mind since I am not a gamer and I will just use it only if somebody wants to borrow my laptop and only knows how to use windows. (XP) For browsing and emails and some of those basic stuffs.

May I request for guidance on how I can achieve this please?

Thank you very much.

**GNU-Fan** · 11-12-2009

Install QEMU from the Debian repositories.
Then create a virtual hard disk file with sufficent space for the install.
Lastly, tell QEMU to use your real physical CDROM as the virtual CDROM drive for emulation. Insert the install disc and start QEMU.

QEMU

PS: I think you were better of to customize KDE to look and operate similar to Windows for these users.

**nujinini** · 11-13-2009

Originally Posted by GNU-Fan

Install QEMU from the Debian repositories.
Then create a virtual hard disk file with sufficent space for the install.
Lastly, tell QEMU to use your real physical CDROM as the virtual CDROM drive for emulation. Insert the install disc and start QEMU.

QEMU

PS: I think you were better of to customize KDE to look and operate similar to Windows for these users.

Hello!

Trying to install XP in Debian using QEMU is also interesting for me since I would like to learn and experience this procedure.

However, your PS re customizing KDE to look and operate similar to Windows also caught my fancy. I will be starting a separate thread regarding this.

Thank you!

**nujinini** · 11-13-2009

First, I have installed QEMU from the Debian repos.

Second I went to number 2 of instructions from the QEMU Quickstart guide of the link. (Windows or Linux guest on Linux host)

I made a 6G preparation w/c seems to be ok:

Code:

jun@debian:~$ sudo qemu-img create -f qcow harddisk.img 6G
Formatting 'harddisk.img', fmt=qcow, size=6291456 kB

Then I proceeded to instruction 3 and inserted XP installation disk to cd drive & I got this.

Code:

jun@debian:~$ qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda c.img -m 256 -boot d
qemu: could not open disk image c.img

I tried to change -hda to -sda since I notice thats the way my partitions are read.

Code:

jun@debian:~$ qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -sda c.img -m 256 -boot d
qemu: invalid option -- '-sda'
jun@debian:~$

**GNU-Fan** · 11-13-2009

Originally Posted by nujinini

Then I proceeded to instruction 3 and inserted XP installation disk to cd drive & I got this.

Code:

jun@debian:~$ qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda c.img -m 256 -boot d
qemu: could not open disk image c.img

Well, the disk image you have created has the name harddisk.img, doesn't it?
Why do call it "c.img" then?

Originally Posted by nujinini

I tried to change -hda to -sda since I notice thats the way my partitions are read.

Code:

jun@debian:~$ qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -sda c.img -m 256 -boot d
qemu: invalid option -- '-sda'
jun@debian:~$

The "-hda xyz.img" option is a parameter of the program QEMU. It means "the first virtual hard drive is the image: 'xyz.img'". This has nothing to do with which devices you use on your host.

**nujinini** · 11-13-2009

Code:

jun@debian:~$ sudo qemu-img create -f qcow harddisk.img 6G
Formatting 'harddisk.img', fmt=qcow, size=6291456 kB

Code:

jun@debian:~$ qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda c.img -m 256 -boot d
qemu: could not open disk image c.img

Code:

Well, the disk image you have created has the name harddisk.img, doesn't it?
Why do call it "c.img" then?

Ohhh...thanks. Very sorry did not notice that

Thank you for pointing it out.

**nujinini** · 11-13-2009

Code:

To install Windows XP on the partition you selected
Setup must write some startup files to the following disk:

6143  MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi (MBR)

However, this disk does not contain a Windows XP-compatible 
partition.

I can't continue from here. Do you think since my Debian is ext3 and XP is on ntfs its causing this problem?

**nujinini** · 11-13-2009

I also get this after i execute:

Code:

jun@debian:~$ qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda harddisk.img -m 256 -boot d
Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated: No such file or directory
jun@debian:~$

However, a window opens and starts to execute an XP installtion. Until I reach the blue screen w/c gave me the message I posted earlier.

**GNU-Fan** · 11-13-2009

Installing Windows XP under Debian with QEMU - Debian Manual

**nujinini** · 11-13-2009

The XP installation went on smoothly. However, I closed the window and now I do not know how to boot it again.

The guide says execute

Code:

qemu -hda xp.img -boot c

This is what I get instead

Code:

jun@debian:~$ qemu -hda xp.img -boot c
qemu: could not open disk image xp.img
jun@debian:~$ sudo qemu -hda xp.img -boot c
qemu: could not open disk image xp.img
jun@debian:~$ su
Password:
debian:/home/jun# qemu -hda xp.img -boot c
qemu: could not open disk image xp.img
debian:/home/jun#

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