On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:58:08AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> It *may* also avoid a bluescreen at boot due to incompatibility of the
> drivers for the previous platform's emulated hardware with the Xen
> platform's emulated hardware. It's worth a shot.
Thanks. Also saw an article with si
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 04:43:17PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 07:50:06PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:20:00AM +0300, pierre-philipp braun wrote:
> > > 2. try to install the GPLPV drivers before the conversion --
> > > https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 07:50:06PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:20:00AM +0300, pierre-philipp braun wrote:
> > 2. try to install the GPLPV drivers before the conversion --
> > https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Windows_GplPv
>
> A tiny doubt: Does winxp run paravritualized? I tho
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:20:00AM +0300, pierre-philipp braun wrote:
> 2. try to install the GPLPV drivers before the conversion --
> https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Windows_GplPv
A tiny doubt: Does winxp run paravritualized? I thought it's hvm so PV
drivers shouldn't be needed. No?
Mayuresh
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:20:00AM +0300, pierre-philipp braun wrote:
> If it is really a virtual disk conversion problem, Mayuresh, I would try
> to convert it with VBoxManage instead of qemu-img, or the other way
> around. Both support RAW, QCOW2 and VDI. Depending on the conversions,
> the one
>> Cons 2: Converting the VirtualBox vdi disk to "raw" and using it as DomU
>> disk hasn't worked. It just leads to "blue screen of death". (A fresh
>> installation of WinXP works, but my constraint is to carry the node locked
>> software as explained above.)
>>
>
> This *may* be just a simple cas
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 08:03:04AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
>
> Cons 2: Converting the VirtualBox vdi disk to "raw" and using it as DomU
> disk hasn't worked. It just leads to "blue screen of death". (A fresh
> installation of WinXP works, but my constraint is to carry the node locked
> software as
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 09:51:56AM +0300, pierre-philipp braun wrote:
> unless you have already used NetBSD as a workstation instead of a
> server,
Yes, for 8 years (it was NetBSD 4 when I started using) on various
laptops, Raspberry Pi and even on android through an emulator! [ Last one
just to s
Hi,
unless you have already used NetBSD as a workstation instead of a
server, I would advice to try it first in this regard, and check whether
it does support all your laptop's peripherals, if you are happy with
various aspects -- and quirks -- that makes it a bit more painful than
wide-spread GNU
Please comment / advise on following requirement and what is the best way
to meet it:
Hardware: Laptop, amd64, 4 core, 4GB for day to day personal +
professional use
Requirement: Primary usage OS should be NetBSD. A certain use case at work
requires use of Windows XP based proprietary software th
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