Mini HowTo - installing windows 98 on qemu

[kadu]

1. Installation guest
At first we should install qemu

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emerge qemu

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When qemu is masked you have to unmask it . If you don't know how to do that read about unmasking in gentoo handbook. Now we must create new virtual disk.

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qemu-img create disk.img 5G

disk.img - name of your virtual disk
5G - size of your virtual disk (in gigabytes)
When we created virtual disk, we can start the system . We can boot it from hard disk or from CD
a)Booting from CD

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qemu -hda disk.img -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d

b)Booting from hard disk

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qemu -hda disk.img -cdrom system.iso -boot d

System.iso is image of your Windows 98
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You should see windows 98 installer. Then you install windows(it lasts 30 - 60 min). I think it's very simple
3.Running win 98

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qemu -user-net -enable-audio -localtime -m 192 -hda dysk.img -cdrom /dev/cdrom -smb share -boot c

-user-net ->creates firewall and give premission to using internet by windows 98
-m 192 -> creates ramdisk for windows98
-localtime -> win98 will be using localtime
-smb share -> you can give permission to share files in samba, which can be used by Windows
-boot c ->start from hard disk
Enjoy
Here is my screenshot

[Dizzutch]

have you tested it with any other versions of windows? ie 2000 or XP?

[kadu]

I've tested it on win XP. It' was running correctly

[Dizzutch]

hrmm, it won't boot my win2k CDrom

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ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-2 Hard-Disk (5120 MBytes)
ata0  slave: Unknown device
ata1 master: QEMU CD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-Rom
ata1  slave: Unknown device

CDROM boot failure code : 0004
Boot from CD-Rom failed
FATAL: Could not read the boot disk

i ran it with

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qemu -hda disk.img -cdrom /dev/hdc -boot d

ever seen that before? the CD boots fine, could it be that all the files on the CD are in capital letters when I mount it?
Thanks
-Dizz

[someguy]

stupid win98 needin boot floppy .... :-/

[kadu]

We have 2 versions of windows 98 SE. First is needing boot from floppy and second is needing boot only from cdrom.

[someguy]

i must have the crap one :-/

[leon_73]

3.Running win 98

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qemu -user-net -enable-audio -localtime -m 192 -hda dysk.img -cdrom /dev/cdrom -smb share -boot c

-user-net ->creates firewall and give premission to using internet by windows 98
-m 192 -> creates ramdisk for windows98
-localtime -> win98 will be using localtime
-smb share -> you can give permission to share files in samba, which can be used by Windows
-boot c ->start from hard disk

Hi Kadu,

I'd like to know if it works also the audio part for you? I cannot find any audio device

Leo

[artworcs]

Using the guide from qemu website, i managed to get win2k installed and working great.

[leon_73]

3.Running win 98

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qemu -user-net -enable-audio -localtime -m 192 -hda dysk.img -cdrom /dev/cdrom -smb share -boot c

-user-net ->creates firewall and give premission to using internet by windows 98
-m 192 -> creates ramdisk for windows98
-localtime -> win98 will be using localtime
-smb share -> you can give permission to share files in samba, which can be used by Windows
-boot c ->start from hard disk

Hi Kadu,

I'd like to know if it works also the audio part for you? I cannot find any audio device

Leo

what a dum... I forgot to search for no-pnp hw ;-P

now it works

[blackwhite]

Great work, Thanks.

[jamiethehutt]

QEMU rocks. Nice howto, kadu.

It's worth knowing/remembering QEMU can also boot from ISO files, so it makes it pretty good for playing with new OS.

[kadu]

thanks

[steelrose]

Hi.I try this on win xp but cannot get it to work.When i run the following command i get this error :

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qemu -hda disk.img -cdrom WindowsXP.iso -boot d

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qemu: could not open hard disk image 'disk.img'

making disk image gives me :

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qemu-img create disk.img 5G
Formating 'disk.img', fmt=raw, size=5242880 kB

Anyone to give a how to or solution for Xp?

[psotnik]

Hi, how I can solve this problem?

qemu -localtime -user-net -hda hd.img -boot d -user-net
qemu: invalid option -- '-user-net'

I have emerged

USE="softmmu " ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge qemu

Next

dd of=hd.img bs=1024 seek=3000000 count=0

Now I wont boot XP

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qemu -localtime -user-net -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda hd.img -boot d

Without parameter --user-net it's work but I can't run network under XP. Any suggestions?

[Gotterdammerung]

Have anyone tried to synchronize a handheld with Windows on QEMU using USB interface?

[FastTurtle]

Has Anyone figured out how to install either 95 or 98 using boot floppy method?

I happen to have both and want to setup test installs for a couple of windows games w/o wine support.

[thumper]

I followed the instructions but used a Bootable CD with DOS on it and formatted C: manually copied the setup files to a directory on C: and installed from there.

You may be able to do the same by booting from /dev/fd0 with you 95/98 boot floppy.

George

[Phenax]

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