Launch Windows XP with Qemu

jrobertson (James Robertson) — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:54:41 GMT

This code worked under Ubuntu Server 7.4, using Qemu and a Windows XP image file.



# Starts up QEmu with various options



# Variables

set -o errexit

SOUND="-soundhw es1370"

MEMORY="-m 330"

TIME="-localtime"

IMGPATH="/mnt/data/virtual/xp"

IMG=$1

USERID=`whoami`



# need to make sure we have read/write access to the  device at /dev/net/tun

echo "Using sudo too to setup /dev/net/tun..."

sudo chown root:$USERID /dev/net/tun

sudo chmod g+rw /dev/net/tun

# now be sure that IP forwarding and masquerading are good to go

echo "Need root password to setup IP forwarding..."

su -c "echo '1' > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward"

echo "Done being root..."

sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE



# Create tap interface so that the script /etc/qemu-ifup can bridge it

# before qemu starts

echo "Using sudo to setup the tap interface..."

IFACE=`sudo tunctl -b -u $USERID`



NET="-net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=$IFACE,script=/etc/qemu-ifup"



# QEmu start

qemu ${SOUND} ${TIME} ${MEMORY} ${IMG} ${NET} -usb





# QEmu has stopped - no longer using tap interface

sudo tunctl -d $IFACE &> /dev/null



# user no longer needs read/write on /dev/net/tun

sudo chown root:root /dev/net/tun

after script execution I run this 'sudo ifconfig tap0 192.168.1.6'
when the script is finished I run this 'sudo tunctl -d tap0'

use qemu on ubuntu linux

manatlan (manatlan) — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:57:05 GMT

you must install qemu first ... run this :



sudo apt-get install qemu

then create a virtual filesystem (to simulate a hdd) (1000000 = 10go), under your home directory



dd of=hd.img bs=1024 seek=1000000 count=0

put a bootable cd (or an "iso-file") in your cd drive (win2k, xp, linux live-cd, ...), and run



qemu -hda /home/[your_name]/hd.img -cdrom /dev/hdd -boot d -m 512 -user-net

option -hda = the virtual disk to use (~/hd.img)
option -m = memory to use (512 mo).
option -cdrom = cd-drive (/dev/hdd for me) (or an iso file)
option -boot = which drive to boot (d as the cdrom)
option -user-net : net user mode (see http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC21)

and it's run like a charm ...impressive

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Launch Windows XP with Qemu

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