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Its my understanding that you can run multiple QEMUs on the same host (if you 
have enough memory to go around) but you shouldn't run QEMU in a QEMU because 
you "risk breaking the host OS" whatever that means.  (If this email has a 
HTML attachment please let me know, thanks)
-------------- Original message from James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>: 
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> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote: 
> 
> > bigger kernel). However, I have managed to boot the floppy 
> > version in QEMU: 
> > ---------------------------- 
> > qemu -fda bl3.f1 -fdb bl3.f2 
> > ---------------------------- 
> > When it asked for floppy 2, I hit CTRL-C and edited /etc/rc. 
> > I changed the line that says "mount /fd" to: 
> > ------------------ 
> > mount /dev/fd1 /fd 
> > ------------------ 
> > Then executed: /etc/rc 
> > 
> > It worked fine, although the colors in X were pretty strange. 
> > It was funny to see Xvesa working on a computer which normally 
> > refuses to run Xvesa (QEMU was running on the SVGA Xserver). 
> 
> I figured it should be possible to do something like this but I couldn't 
> quite project the right steps. Thanks for pointing them out. If one were 
> to specify a qemu HD image on that line as well as including the -boot 
> option with the right parameters (so qemu doesn't try to boot from the 
> qemu HD image), i.e., qemu -boot a -fda bl3.f1 -fdb bl3.f2 -hda 
> BLqemu_img.img , one could go on to do a HD install as well. My attempts 
> at installing Win98 under BL3 qemu were not entirely successful so far. 
> But then I've been running BL3 inside qemu, and have been trying to run 
> qemu within it. I think I'll need to try this with a BL3 install on real 
> hardware to find out where the problem lies and to maybe meet with 
> success. 
> 
> James 
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