Setting up a VM to run XP in an up-to-date F12 box?

[Bill Davidsen]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:49:44 -0800 (PST)
> Mike Cloaked wrote:
> 
>> Interesting replies - thank you - but noticeable that the fedora provided
>> facility of kvm has been mentioned by no-one!
> 
> I'm running XP under KVM (obviously you need KVM capable hardware),
> and it works fine, but when installing under fedora 11, the
> virt-manager tool didn't create an ACPI capable KVM, so I couldn't
> shutdown the machine via normal shutdown menu item. I eventually
> re-installed, telling virt-manager I was installing vista (which
> did get ACPI).
> 
> I run smb on fedora and auto mount a network file system in the
> XP box to get access to more storage than the small virtual
> disk I setup during the install.
> 
> The virt-manager tool does support USB pass-through, but my one
> attempt to test it didn't work very well. I tried passing my
> all-in-one HP photosmart device to it, and XP just bluescreened
> randomly whenever it was connected :-).
> 
> You also don't get much in the way of emulated video. I tried
> accessing ESPN-360 since they don't support linux, and the
> installer said the video wasn't good enough.
> 
> As far as access to the outside world goes, I destroyed the
> default NAT based network, and created a bridge, which works
> much better for my - my virtual machines act just like any
> other machines in my local network.
> 
The last paragraph is the only one I can comment on, "me too!" I set up a 
bridge, moved my NICs to it, changed my routing, and I can run servers on it 
just fine. I run my own internal DHCP, so each machine has it's own MAC address 
and gets the IP from that. If I need to change the IP for some odd reason, I can 
do it in the DHCP server config, instead of on individual machines.

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