Antonio Olivares wrote:
This is more or less what we are looking for. Is there a howto on setting up quemu with -snapshot option?
Too easy.
Assuming F7:
# yum install kvm qemu
# modprobe kvm-intel (or kvm-amd)
check for errors on the command line and in dmesg.
No errors? The you have a system that is capable of hardware
accelerated virtual systems.
# mkdir /data
# cd /data
# qemu-img create -f qcow vdisk.img 10G
Put your copy of XPSP2 in the CDROM drive.
# dd if=/dev/scd0 of=XPSP2.iso
# qemu-kvm -hda winxp.img -cdrom XPSP2.iso -boot d -m 1000
This will start the install.
The -m argument is Megabytes RAM, and I have a 4GB system to test. :)
Drop it as low as 256 for smaller systems.
To run normally (after the install):
$ qemu-kvm -hda winxp.img -cdrom /dev/null -m 1000 -net user -net nic
-snapshot
There are lots of suggestions here:
http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki
Good luck!
