Virtualization hassles

[Les Mikesell]

John Lagrue wrote:
> I have at least two problems running a virtual machine on F7
> 
> 1. Running qemu from hte command line means I can create a virtual
> disk, run a virtual machine and install Windows XP on it. I can do
> this because it enables me to define the cdrom on the command line
> with "-cdrom /dev/cdrom". But I can't get any further because it keeps
> giving me an error saying "A problem is preventing Windows from
> accurately checking the license for this computer"
> 
> If I run the same virtual machine from the virtual machine manager I
> don't get that error. But I don't get the CD ROM either
> 
> 
> 2. The above was obtained with QEMU. If I try to connect the Virtual
> Machine Manager to XEN I get an error that tells me that either I'm
> not running a XEN-enabled kernel, or the XEN service isn't running.
> Unfortunately, it is running!
> 
> Any advice from anyone on either of these? I would love to do away
> with dual-booting my laptop and just run Vista in a VM when I need it,
> but so far I'm not having a lot of luck.

Have you looked at VMware server that you can download at no cost from 
http://www.vmware.com?

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   Les Mikesell
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