On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Frank Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using qemu to run a Win98 guest on i386 host for about a year. On > Aug.2, I installed an i386 snapshot that was a few days old. Since then, > I've been running a Win98 guest on qemu-0.9.1p3 with no issues. > > Sometime over the past 12 months I realised I could be running amd64 on my > Core2Duo processor; so (using purchased cdrom's) I made the switch to 8.4 > amd64 release over the weekend. Not sure if I did it correctly; but I did > it as an upgrade, then deleted and added all packages. Seems to be working > fine so far; except for some problems with qemu.
That is not the right way to do it, but probably didn't hurt too much. amd64 is not an upgrade, you should have done a clean install. > Am I allowed to run a guest like Win98 on host running amd64? It seems to > work ok when running a couple of apps (win & dos); as long as there is no > network access. I don't know. I've been running qemu on amd64 for a long time without issues. guests are openbsd (i386 and amd64) and freedos.
