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Consider if you really need to run the Windows program: in most cases, its functionality is provided by a free Linux program, see SoftwareEquivalents. Consider also to use Wine instead of Qemu, if you need to run a single Windows programs. Most of the stuff in this page is not specific to install Windows XP under Qemu, but can be used to install also free operating systems. See also Installation/QemuEmulator.

Running Windows Under Ubuntu 7.04/7.10

QEmu can run an OS inside another OS - for example, Windows under Linux. QEmu uses kqemu, an acceleration driver included in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn to run Windows at usable speed. Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn also includes a new version of rdesktop that can be used to start individual desktop apps from the VM on your normal desktop. See SeamlessVirtualization. This also works in Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Gibbon. WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=SeamlessVirtualizationWithThemingResized.png Note: Most computers purchased since 2006 support VT or Pacifica, technologies that provide hardware support for virtualization. To see if your system includes these technologies, run the following:

grep -E '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

If there are any results, then Kernel Virtualization is another possibility for virtualizing other operating systems. Note: Even if you get no output from the above command, your computer may actually support virtualization in hardware. Some machines are delivered with a BIOS option switching off hardware virtualization. Other machines require updating to the latest BIOS for it to work correctly. To install Ubuntu inside QEmu, please read Installation/QemuEmulator.

Installing Windows in QEmu with Feisty 7.04 and Gutsy 7.10

While the following guide uses Windows XP, older versions of Windows work fine, and may be preferred due to their increased speed.

  1. First you need to install qemu kqemu-source and module assistant from the Universe Repository. (In Gutsy(7.10),Use the synaptic package manager, search for kqemu and install kqemu-source. Module Assistant is not needed.)

2. Next you need to build the kqemu module from Ubuntu's package

sudo module-assistant prepare
sudo module-assistant auto-install kqemu

3. Next you need to configure udev to create the /dev/kqemu device node upon loading the kqemu module

  • Create /etc/udev/rules.d/60-kqemu.rules
gksu gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/60-kqemu.rules  

with the following content: (the order between GROUP and MODE seems to matter, be sure to add a newline at the end of the file)

KERNEL=="kqemu", NAME="%k", GROUP="kqemu", MODE="0660"  

4. Change the content of /etc/modprobe.d/kqemu to

options kqemu major=0

5. Create a group "kqemu" and add all users who should be allowed to use QEMU with acceleration to this group

sudo addgroup --system kqemu
sudo adduser $USER kqemu 
  • Make sure to update your environment before proceeding to reflect the fact, that your user is now part of the

kqemu group (for example by logging in and out). 6. Force udev to reload its config files

sudo /etc/init.d/udev reload

7. Load the kqemu module

sudo update-modules
sudo modprobe kqemu

8. Check that the permissions are right

$ ls -l /dev/kqemu
crw-rw---- 1 root kqemu 10, 62 2007-07-22 15:36 /dev/kqemu
  • If the permissions are wrong, it is probably because your udev rule wasn't read properly. Try re-loading the

module

sudo modprobe -r kqemu
sudo modprobe kqemu

and see if that clears the problem. If not, add OWNER="youruser" to the end of the udev rule and try again 9. If you want to load the kqemu module upon system start in the future, add "kqemu" to your /etc/modules file

gksu gedit /etc/modules 

10. Create a virtual drive for Windows

qemu-img create -f qcow windows.img 2G
  • This creates a two gigabyte virtual drive, stored as a single file called windows.img in the location where

you ran the command. Any size above 1.5GB (the minimum to run Windows XP) is fine. The virtual drive will start out as a small file, and only fill its the size you specified when it reaches capacity due to the qcow file format used.

  • Note: If you want to install Windows XP Service Pack 2 + Updates, 2 GB is not enough for the image

size. Use at least 3-4 GB.

  • Note: Consider using as much disk space as you can afford. Resizing NTFS partitions is a pain in the

ass, but hard disk space is cheap.

  • Note: If you use qcow images, you will not be able to mount the image within Ubuntu. You can omit '-f

qcow' and create a mountable image, but this will mean that the size of the virtual drive will be fixed and larger. Instructions to convert a raw drive to a qcow drive appear at the end of this page. 11. Install Windows XP. Put the CD in the drive and run:

qemu -localtime -cdrom /dev/cdrom -m 384 -boot d windows.img

12. This starts QEmu using the time from Ubuntu, windows.img as the hard disk file, /dev/cdrom as the CD, 384 MB of memory (a good minimum for XP) and will boot from the CD. 13. Alternatively, you can use a .iso image file

qemu -localtime -cdrom cdimagefile.iso -m 384 -boot d windows.img

14. If you're having trouble creating the Windows partition during Windows installation, check that you have read and write access to the disk image. Use this command to set the file permissions for the windows.img file so that all users in the kqemu group can access the virtual disk

chmod 660 windows.img
sudo chown $USER:kqemu windows.img
  • Note to 64 bit users: Use 'qemu-system-x86_64' instead of 'qemu'. Otherwise the "-kernel-kqemu" option

will not work.

  • Note for Windows 2000: Add the option '-win2k-hack'. Otherwise the install may fail with "Not enough

disk space" even when that isn't the case. 15. QEmu will start, boot from the CD, and load the XP installer. The installer works like any other Windows install for the most part. However, on some systems the last part of the initial install, pictured, below, will stick around for a very long time. In this case, just reboot (restart QEmu), and the installer will proceed past this point. WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=windows%2Bxp%2Bin%2Bqemu.png 16. After a few 'reboots' of QEmu you will be running Windows XP. 17. Clicking on the QEmu window will take control of the Windows cursor. To go back to Linux, press Ctrl + Alt and to toggle fullscreen press Ctrl + Alt + F

Networking

QEmu provides two modes of networking. In both modes, a virtual network adapter is created inside Windows XP guest.

User mode networking

In user mode networking, QEmu manages network interface internally in the user mode emulator application. QEmu provides DHCP host which assigns a dynamic IP for the guest OS. TCP and UDP ports can be redirected from the host OS to the guest OS using QEmu command line parameters.

QEMU VLAN      <------>  Firewall/DHCP server <-----> Host network
|          (10.0.2.2)
|
---->  DNS server (10.0.2.3)
|     
---->  SMB server (10.0.2.4)

Pros

  • Easy to set up

Cons

  • Only TCP and UDP connections are available by default. Ping command, for example, doesn't work inside the guest OS
  • Incoming connections must be configured beforehand

TAP network

In TAP networking, QEmu connects the guest OS ethernet to the host OS using TAP network bridge. Linux creates a virtual network interface (tap0) which appears in ifconfig listing as other network interfaces. Further, it is possible to bridge network traffic to the guest OS using normal Linux network bridging functionalities. For examples, see following pages

Pros

  • Provides full emulated IP stack

Cons

  • Difficult to set up. The set-up is especially cumbersome if you try to run QEmu without root priviledges

VDE and Dnsmasq

This is an alternative to TAP networking. Most of this is from the page KVM - Advanced Networking and http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~djw/qemu.html. Caution: The following package, "dnsmasq" provides dns, tftp and dhcpd services. An LTSP standalone server would be affected because dnsmasq would interfere with the dhcpd and tftp services.

  • Install the packages vde dnsmasq:
sudo apt-get install vde dnsmasq
  • In the file /etc/sysctl uncomment the following line to allow IP forwarding:
net.ipv4.conf.default.forwarding=1
  • In the file /etc/modules, add a new line with "tun", to make that module load on boot.
  • Add the new network interface. Edit the file /etc/network/interfaces and paste this:
auto qtap0
iface qtap0 inet static
address 10.111.111.254
netmask 255.255.255.0
pre-up /sbin/modprobe ipt_MASQUERADE
pre-up /usr/bin/vde_switch --tap qtap0 --daemon --group vde2-net --mod 775 --mgmtmode 770 --pidfile /var/run/vde_switch.pid
pre-up /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart
up iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
down iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
post-down kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/vde_switch.pid`

Temporary vdeq control sockets are created in /tmp and the vde_switch socket in /var/run/vde.ctl/

  • Configure DNSmasq. Edit the file /etc/dnsmasq.conf and change the following options:
user=nobody
domain=qemu.lan
interface=qtap0
dhcp-range=10.111.111.1,10.111.111.253,255.255.255.0,10.111.111.255,8h

To avoid the need for root privileges add the group "vde2-net" to all users that will use VDE (log-out and log-in for this to take effect)

sudo usermod -aG vde2-net $USER

Either restart the PC or simply do:

sudo sh -c "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward"
sudo modprobe tun
sudo ifup qtap0

Then you will have a virtual network on qtap0 interface. All the VM will be able to connect to the Internet (because of the iptable line on /etc/network/interfaces), but will not be accessible from it. To run a VM with the virtual network use vdeqemu instead of qemu:

vdeqemu -net vde,vlan=0 -net nic,vlan=0 -m 384 -boot c windows.img

See KVM Advanced Networking - Permanent Setup- for more details on using qemu-launcher and qemuctl with VDE and KVM hardware virtualisation

Additional Options

Sharing Files With XP and Networking

It's not much use having an XP installation if you can't transfer files between Ubuntu and XP. Fortunately, QEMU sets up a virtual LAN and DHCP server for you. You can transfer files to and from XP just as if it was on a real LAN. You can also browse the net and download files and do all the network stuff you would do on a real networked XP box.

Sharing Files between the Host and VM

QEmu supports file sharing between the VM and host if you have Samba configured on the host system. The following assumes you have a share called 'qemu_share' in your home directory intended to transfer files between Ubuntu and Windows. To set this up, start QEmu with the following command:

qemu -smb $HOME/qemu_share -m 384 -localtime windows.img

Inside Windows, you can access the shared drive with the following command from a DOS prompt. For example, to map Windows drive 'e' to the share

net use e: \\10.0.2.2\qemu_share

The IP address of Ubuntu will always be 10.0.2.2. If you have running servers on your Ubuntu box, they can also be accessed at this IP address (e.g. ftp://10.0.2.2)

USB Tablet Emulation

QEmu can emulate a USB tablet input device instead of an ordinary mouse. Since a tablet reports the pointer position in absolute coordinates, it is possible to have the guest pointer track the host pointer position directly without a mouse grab. Running QEmu with the command line options "-usb -usbdevice tablet" enables USB emulation and the tablet input device:

qemu -m 384 -localtime -usb -usbdevice tablet windows.img

Windows XP automatically uses the tablet without having to install any additional drivers. (TODO: Maybe these options should simply be added to the default ones at the top of the page. Not everyone will find this paragraph, and the feature is so useful that it should probably be recommended for general use. --DanielElstner)

Mounting A Virtual Drive

You can also mount the QEmu virtual disk just like any other drive. QCOW images cannot be mounted. If the drive was created in qcow format you'll need to convert it first, see convertimg2raw below. Make sure you are NOT running QEMU when you do this. To mount the drive, create a directory '/media/qemu'. Then run

sudo mount -o loop,offset=32256 windows.img /media/qemu

Saving and Restoring the State of the VM

You can quickly save and restore the state of your Windows System using QEmu's 'overlay images'. Once you have done your initial install, you can create an overlay image and run QEMU off this. The overlay image is very much smaller that the original image and will only contain changes made since the original install. If you trash your XP installation, you can simply delete the overlay image and create a new one from the original image. To create an overlay image, use the qemu-image program. To create an image windows.ovl from windows.img, issue the following

qemu-img create -b windows.img -f qcow windows.ovl

To run Windows, you would now use

qemu windows.ovl -enable-audio -user-net -localtime -smb qemu_share

If the winxp.ovl installation is ruined, you can delete it, and start QEmu using the winxp.img file. But you will lose changes made since the original install.

Snapshot mode

With the option -snapshot, QEmu writes to temporary files instead of disk image files. In this case, the raw disk image you use is not written back. You can however force the write back by pressing C-a s. The snapshot mode if useful to try a program that you don't trust (you should never trust a closed source program).

QEmu Monitor

QEmu also accepts commands from the shell while it is running. To do this, though, you need to press CTRL+ALT+2 with the QEmu window active. This brings up the QEmu Monitor. From here, you can swap CDs, send keypresses to the emulator, suspend to disk and so on. See the official documentation for full details. To exit the QEmu monitor press CTRL+ALT+1

Converting a qcow image to a raw file

To convert a qcow image, 'windows.img', to a raw 'windows.raw' file , run

qemu-img convert windows.img -O raw windows.raw

Converting a raw drive to qcow format

To convert a raw 'windows.img' file to a qcow formatted 'windows.qcow', run

qemu-img convert windows.img -O qcow windows.qcow

Troubleshooting

If you experience problems with mouse pointer hanging in bottom right corner, try before you start up qemu

export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0

External Links

This has been tested by me and works in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. Ubuntu:Vaderdarth211