On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Can someone point me to a good step by step howto to set up Windows XP >> installed from an iso in a VM in F12 using kvm. There are some XP >> applications that only work in XP itself rather than in wine or Crossover. >> >> I have not tinkered with virtualised machines before so this is a learning >> curve for me. > > If this is your first time, I can suggest to try out VirtualBox: > > yum install VirtualBox-OSE > > (it's in rpmfusion-free repo). It is far more user-friendly (from my POV) for > a first-timer. > > Read the manuals in order to learn what is possible. After your first install, > you'll probably figure out that you could have made better choices in some > areas etc., and you'll probably go make another VM, and another, and... :-) > > I remember that my third VM install was pretty much perfect for me (it was > under VMWare at the time). Now under VirtualBox I have it all working, even 3D > acceleration (games and such). > > It's typically faster to install XP from an .iso file than from the CD drive > itself. Clean, fast and useful. > > All in all, it's really easy, and fun to do! :-) > >> It is not clear where the virtualised machine would get installed by >> default - but it looks like it would be in /var/lib/libvirt/images which >> is on the root partition in my case so I made a new directory in a bigger >> partition with plenty of space, and bind mounted it ahead of trying to >> create a new VM. > > KVM has that path as default. AFAIK, the problem is that if you change it, > SELinux will start yelling at you --- be prepared to deal with it, chcon your > custom directory, semanage policies etc... VirtualBox doesn't have those > problems. ;-) I can also recommend VirtualBox. I am running XP on VirtualBox, which is fast and simple. Paul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
