AL> Hi all,
AL> I am new to TEMU. I am installing it but there is a step
AL> (Configuring a new VM) , and i stucked into it. I am using Ubuntu
AL> 10.10 as host on which i have installed temu as well as qemu. and
AL> in qemu i have installed windows xp sp2 image(means i am running
AL> win xp as my guest operating system in qemu). Now i am bit
AL> confused what to do next .
AL> There are two steps
AL> 1) Windows based VMs
AL> 2) Linux based VMs
AL> For which i should go........
If your question really is just which one of those steps applies to
your situation, it is an easy one, though perhaps this means I'm
misunderstanding. The host system for TEMU 1.0 is always Linux, while
Windows and Linux are the best supported guest systems. So the
"Windows-based" versus "Linux-based" terminology is referring to the
guest OS. In your case, your guest OS is Windows, so you should follow
the directions under "Windows-based VMs", inside the guest system.
Hope this helps,
-- Stephen
AL> Thanks for your reply.
AL> Now I would like to ask that I have installed TEMU in Linux as
AL> host system and using windows as guest and also copied testdrv.sys
AL> file to windows system's specified path, but I have to run
AL> testdrv.reg file to configure the driver. Then how it is possible
AL> to run testdrv.reg file in Linux?
It is neither possible nor desirable to run the testdrv.reg file in
Linux. Like all of the steps listed under "Windows-based VMs", that
file is intended for use inside the Windows guest VM. Specifically,
that file consists of Windows registry entries that are used to inform
the Windows kernel about the Windows device driver testdrv.sys.
Another previous discussion on this topic which you might find useful
is in the list archives at:
http://groups.google.com/group/bitblaze-users/browse_thread/thread/e615c9f980e40c7e