Video: Windows 95, 98, 2000 and XP simultaneously running virtualized on Linux
The idea of visualizing the history of Microsoft on four sides of a desktop cube does sound enthralling no matter how much you despise the company’s products. That’s precisely the reason why I spent a whole night trying to configure four different operating systems to run virtualized on QEMU/KVM with networking and multimedia capabilities. The results look good, especially when you have a compositing window manager to extrapolate their effects.
Video screenshots
Hardware Information
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 @ 1.86GHz |
| Motherboard | Intel DG965RY |
| RAM | 512 MB |
Software Information
| Host Operating System | Linux From Scratch |
| Host Kernel | Linux 2.6.21 |
| Host Virtualization Setup | QEMU 0.9.0/KVM-20 |
| Desktop Environment | Beryl 0.2.0/Xfce 4.4.1 |
Note: Windows 98 and 95 don’t like KVM at all, so I had to run their respective virtual machines with the -no-kvm switch.
Absolutely awesome! Thanks for sending the link. Beryl is running great on my computer. Except that at times when I reboot, Kwin loads instead of Beryl. I have also upgraded to 7.04. Didn’t like Compiz. but the rest is great.
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How you can run Windows 95 in a Intel Core 2 Duo???
I had problems when I tried do that in a Intel P4.
Comment by Yolo — May 1, 2007 @ 11:55 pm
Well, strictly speaking, neither of the virtualized operating systems are running on a Core 2 Duo processor. Instead, they’re seeing the ‘virtual’ processor available to them from the ’emulator’. I haven’t tried installing Win 95 on my PC directly but I’m almost sure that it won’t succeed under normal circumstances.
Comment by krkhan — May 2, 2007 @ 12:14 am
Yeah, is very difficult install W95 directly in the HD. But I was using the VMware Workstation and can’t run it.
Maybe I need use QEMU in my Ubuntu… let’s work!
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my configarations r
intel dg 965ry mother board
core 2 duo 1.86ghz
2gb cosiar 667 fast ram
512 ati graphics card
200 gb h.d 7200 rpm
but still im having awsome probs in the system . now im getting some noise from hard disk like (kar kar) at tat time my system gets slow nd sound gets cuttings at tat mean time …! nd the startup is very slow …! already i have changed my hard disk 4 2times .. thn i rebooting my os for 4times ..my os is win xp prof s.p 2 …! wat to do …!
Comment by jitesh — May 18, 2007 @ 6:17 am
The sad part is you still set up a camcorder to record your monitor to show it off… VLC stream capturing ftw!
http://www.techmag.biz/capturing_screen_VLC_screencasting
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