[TriLUG] WinXP in QEMU?

Lee Fickenscher elfick at mac.com
Thu Apr 7 12:45:14 EDT 2005


If Microsoft Office and Quickbooks are a must, how about a mac?
-Lee

David McDowell wrote:

>anyone have good success with WinXP Home/Pro in QEMU?? (I'll be trying
>QEMU on CentOS 3.4 or 4.0 possibly).  CEO keeps having terrible
>problems with her kids and her XP installation constantly crashing...
>I've almost convinced her to try linux, but need to give her a way to
>get to Microsoft Office and Quickbooks, figured a free VM is better
>than paying for crossover or something.
>
>How'd the networking and how's QEMU on allowing the VM to access the
>local /home of the host OS?
>
>Thanks,
>David McD
>  
>




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