Install and Run Windows Within QEMU Virtualization on Open. BSD or Linux Running Windows in a Virtual Machine The following describes how to run Windows in a. Linux distribution or on. This how to includes all the details. The method uses the QEMU virtual machine emulator. QEMU running on a Linux platform can take advantage of the. KVM or Kernel based Virtual Machine support within the. Linux kernel for better performance. I use Open. BSD on my. Open. BSD has better performance than a typical Linux. Open. BSD boots quickly and shuts down really. Thats good if Im somewhere like a coffeeshop. Linux shuts down umpteen arcane services. I really didnt need in the first place. Using both Linux and Open. BSD forces me to better know. Unix in general, not just one Linux distribution. Open. BSD is the operating system of choice. Unfortunately, once in a great while I need to do something. Windows. let me handle Microsoft Office documents just fine. That would seem to leave games as the only thing that Windows. But once in a while I need to figure out. Windows hides a certain piece of data. Windows misbehaves in a certain situation. How To Shrink VMware Virtual Disk Files. This guide shows how you can shrink the virtual disk files they have the extension. This post is aimed at converting split vmdk files myfile. X. vmdk files into a single. Split. vmdk files are often performed to. I have to deal with a poorly written web page that isnt. Explorer page. The solution would seem to be VMware. Open. BSD operating system. And even on Linux, VMware is very sensitive to kernel version. You might have to keep your system running older kernels and. Further down in this thread, we also see that the target browser is a 5 year old version of Firefox. Ive written in the past about verifying program behavior using. How to zero fill a virtual disks free space on windows for better compression I would like a simple open source tool or at least free for that. It should probably. The builtin search feature in Windows 7 is significantly better than the horrible search options in Windows XP. Instead of installing a thirdparty progra. I have been running VMware for the last year no problems, today I opened it up to start one of my VM and get an error message, see screen shot. I did follow the link. I have a VMware virtual machine that I made quite large. I am not really using most of it, so I would like to reduce it by 50 or so. Is there a tool to do thisVMware. And forget about running VMware on other hardware platforms. Ultra. SPARC. No problem there is a much easier. Windows The Open. BSD specific parts of the following are based on. README. Open. BSDwith some corrections and updates and improvements. A KDE desktop on an Open. BSD laptop. with Windows XP running within a QEMU virtual machine. Install Vmware Vdiskmanager Linux' title='Install Vmware Vdiskmanager Linux' />My Ubuntu image VMware disk has grown to 5GB physical file size. Its a dynamically growing disk with the maximum capacity of 8GB. I cleaned some stuff inside Linux. How to Increase Disk Space in VMware. VMware is a cloud based operating system that allows you to run multiple virtual machines from a single physical computer. Thus. Since this is a vmdk file, you could use VMWares vdiskmanager, if its available for your platform. VMWare has x86 Linux, Windows, and OS X versions here. Within that XP VM, Explorer is viewing an early version. Explorer. viewing the page, and so on down to infinity. Install QEMU and QEMU Kernel Support. Install the QEMU packages as needed. They will probably have names. See my page on Unix package management. Find the package names with one of these. Most RPM based Linux distributions. DebianUbuntu Linux. Install the packages with one of these, changing. Most RPM based Linux distributions. DebianUbuntu Linux. Notice that package collections for past versions of Open. BSD. at least on the i. QEMU kernel accelerator package kqemu. However, QEMU versions starting with 0. QEMU have dropped all kqemu. Quoting from the QEMU development mailing list. August, 2. 00. 9. The worst is that it prevents large memory. Furthermore, kqemu is fundamentally flawed. It relies on the TSC as a time source which will not be. Since most modern processors are multicore. Linux kernel. be sure to include support for KVM. Kernel based Virtual Machine module of the Linux kernel. Here you see a kernel build configuration underway. KVM for both Intel and AMD processors. This builds three modules kvm. Convert an Existing VMware Image. Lets say you are starting with an existing VMware based. The VMware products have probably led you to creating the. GB each instead of one large disk image file. So, you see something like the following. Linux Qemu Win. G Windows. K Windows. 7 s. 01. G Windows. 7 s. 00. K Windows. 7 s. 01. G Windows. 7 s. 00. K Windows. 7 s. 01. G Windows. 7 s. 00. K Windows. 7 s. 01. G Windows. 7 s. 00. K Windows. 7 s. 01. G Windows. 7 s. 00. K Windows. 7 s. 02. M Windows. 7 s. 00. K Windows. 7 s. 02. M Windows. 7 s. 00. M Windows. 7. log. M Windows. 7 s. 00. K Windows. 7. vmdk. K Windows. 7 s. 01. Windows. 7. vmsd. G Windows. 7 s. 01. K Windows. 7. vmx. M Windows. 7 s. 01. K Windows. 7. vmxf. K Windows. 7 s. 01. K nvram. 3. 20. K Windows. First, convert the multi file disk image into a single file. You will need the vmware vdiskmanager program. VMware Workstation or Server. Notice that the parameter is the relatively small file. Windows. 7. vmdk. Windows. 7 s. 0 Linux Qemu Win. Windows. 7. vmdk t 0 Windows. This will take a long time and involve a lot of disk IO. The result is one large VMware file, 1. GB in this case. Its the first file in this listing. Linux Qemu Win. G Windows. K Windows. 7 s. 01. G Windows. 7 s. 00. K Windows. 7 s. 01. G Windows. 7 s. 00. How To Apply Patch In Oracle 10G In Windows. K Windows. 7 s. 01. G Windows. 7 s. 00. K Windows. 7 s. 01. G Windows. 7 s. 00. K Windows. 7 s. 01. G Windows. 7 s. 00. K Windows. 7 s. 01. G Windows. 7 s. 00. K Windows. 7 s. 02. M Windows. 7 s. 00. K Windows. 7 s. 02. M Windows. 7 s. 00. M Windows. 7. log. M Windows. 7 s. 00. K Windows. 7. vmdk. K Windows. 7 s. 01. Windows. 7. vmsd. G Windows. 7 s. 01. K Windows. 7. vmx. M Windows. 7 s. 01. K Windows. 7. vmxf. K Windows. 7 s. 01. K nvram. Now we can use a QEMU tool to convert the one large disk. The option is dash capital O and not dash zero. Linux Qemu Win. O qcow. Windows. Windows. Install Windows in a QEMU Emulator. If you successfully converted an existing Windows image. However, if you need to start with a fresh installation. Windows, use this section. This was easier for me than some web pages. But just in case, Ill provide alternatives in case you. First, lets put our Windows virtual machine somewhere. The location windows made sense to me. Now create an empty disk image. GB was going to be more than enough. I wanted to do. It might be nice to have an image that would fit on one. DVD, so 4. 50. 0M could have been a. G for the size specification. I had been certain that what I needed to do would. G. create What were doing, creating a new disk image. Most versatile format, supporting sparse file. AES encryption, zlib based compression. VM snapshots. cow copy on write. The name of the image file to create. G 8 gigabytes. Unlike some people, I had no trouble getting qemu. I simply put a Windows XP install DVD in the drive and. However, if for some reason that didnt work. ISO image of that DVD. That could even be done on another system and shared over NFS. I suspect that their problem might have been caused by. CDDVD device itself. Compare the owner, group, and permissions reported by ls l devcd. OK, lets do the initial installation. Let the virtual machine have 5. MB of RAM. This should be no more than half the. RAM in the system. Specify the CDDVD device or ISO image. Boot from device D, the CDDVD. Disable the disfunctional ACPI. The file containing the virtual disk image. Hey, look, it works Its the Windows installation boot process running within. Open. BSD desktop. Get it started and then go do something else for a while. It will get to some point and want to reboot from the. Since were running on a virtual disk image, we will have. In the terminal emulator where you started qemu. Type q and lt enter to effectively. Now leave the DVD in the drive or the ISO image mounted. Notice that we are not passing the boot d. DVD device. This example is from my Open. BSD laptop where. CDDVD device. The default boot device is the file virtual. QEMUs notion of the boot disk. ISO image is still mounted. Now get the secondary installation running, and go away. Once its done installing, shut down Windows and quit. Then just start it the same way as shown above. I created a one line shell script to save typing. Options ACPI or not, Networking and Graphics ACPI. Some combinations of host OS, guest OS and QEMU version. Networking. Scenario 1 Hardware Intel Celeron 9. GHz, 3 GB RAM Host OS Open. BSD 5. 0 amd. 64 with QEMU 0. Guest OS Windows XP SP3 IA3. Add this line to the end of etcrc. QEMU VLAN and. the physical Ethernet interface, changing.