Re: [Qemu-devel] Installing a guest WXP on a MacOS X host

[j . cooper1]

I made a image of a xp cd with the Disk Utility also.  When you make the image, you must make sure you not use the compressed format.

Jeff

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>
> Le 19 juil. 04, à 18:21, Laurent Amon a écrit :
>
> > Selon Alexandre Tolmos :
> >
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I'm new to QEMU and I'd like to know how to boot a Windows XP
> >> installation CDROM from MacOS X. Do I need to create an ISO image from
> >> my WXP CDROM or can I boot directly from it e.g. using "-cdrom
> >> /dev/" ?
> >>
> >> Which tools are needed to create an ISO image from a CDROM ?
> >
> > Use Disk Utility (on Panther). Select the cdrom in the list and choose
> > Images -> New -> Image from . It will save as .dmg
> > Then qemu youdisk.dmg -cdrom file.dmg -boot d
>
> I tried that but I get a "CDROM boot failure code 004" in the BIOS boot
> sequence...
>
> Maybe it can't work with "dmg" images.
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
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