Subject: Re: [Semi-OT] Sharing files with Windows
To: Brian de Alwis <bsd@cs.ubc.ca>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/27/2006 23:28:57
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Brian de Alwis wrote:
> I wonder if you could do the opposite, and boot Windows from NetBSD
> using qemu?
Yes, but your qemu machine will not be anything like your real
hardware so Windows will be somewhat unhappy. I have a separate
Windows install in a 4GB file for qemu Windows usage.
If you want to prove a (rather useless) point, you _can_
boot NetBSD, run qemu and boot your NetBSD partition again
(running with snapshot so the new instance doesn't overwrite
the original filesystem). Then in that NetBSD you can run
qemu a second time, in which you can boot NetBSD a third
time, and...
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