This How-to is explaining how to install an operating system inside of another operating system. For example in this how-to we're going setup a virtual machine running Windows 98 inside a CentOS operating system using QEMU.

 
Name: QEMU

HomePage: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

Function: QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer

1. First lets download and install the Binary distribution of Qemu for linux-i386.

http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/

2. Next step is to unzip qemu-0.9.0-i386.tar.gz and install it.

3. Once it has been installed now download the win98 boot image.

http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/bootdisk.htm

4. Unzip the file msd710abd.zip into a directory.

5. Next step is to setup a virtual harddrive file.

qemu-img create -f raw harddisk.img 1000M

6. Now run the startup command using the windows 98 boot image.

qemu -L /usr/local/share/qemu/ -m 32 -fda /home/user/msd710ab.img -hda /home/user/harddisk.img -boot a

7. Once you have booted into the virtual machine format the virtual drive

Run fdisk to create a partition

8. Once you have created the partition then format the drive

format c: /s

9. Now insert the windows 98 CD into your CD drive and run the following command

qemu -L /usr/local/share/qemu/ -hda /home/user/harddisk.img -cdrom /dev/hdb -boot d

10. From now on just follow the setup steps like you would any normal installation of windows 98.

11.  Once Windows 98 setup has run and Windows 98 is installed run the following command to start it.

qemu -L /usr/local/share/qemu/ -m 128 -hda /home/user/harddisk.img -cdrom /dev/hdb -boot c -M pc

BookMarking:

cell1

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Trouble Shooting:

Go to the wiki page

Go to the 'Contact Us ' Forum

Go to the how-to's Support Forum

External Links:

http://mark.foster.cc/wiki/index.php/Qemu_on_Ubuntu

http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/CentOS5PentiumSupport