So I ended up installing Windows into one in Qemu. Now I can’t get out of it. I thought that ctrl-alt-L would release it, but nothing happens. I somehow got into a full-screen Windows mode and can’t get out or even see the virt-manager. Any ideas?
[Update a while later]
OK, I figured it out. I’d accidentally clicked on “Full Screen View,” and had to get out of that mode to release the mouse and keyboard, by getting it to drop down from the top.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, next question. Anyone know how to make a physical NTFS partition viewable by a virtual machine?
[Saturday-morning update]
I decided to try to look at the drive by making it a share on the network, through the virtual ethernet port, but I can’t get Samba to work. Maybe Winscp?
Ctrl-alt-f2 to switch virtual console maybe?
No, that gives me a terminal, which I could use to restart the machine, I suppose, but as you can see in the update, I figured it out.
I used to use VirtualBox a couple of years back as the interface was a lot simpler to use. I don’t know how good each of the current solutions is .
QEMU is pretty barebones. Why not Virtualbox ? Runs on top of anything, and can host pretty much anything too.
To be fair, for VMing non-intel stuff QEMU is pretty much the only choice. I’ve run mips, ppc, arm and other code on it. Getting it set up properly with all the devices is a pita though.
Not sure Virtualbox is being maintained much these days…
Yeah, I usually used Winscp to connect from my Ubuntu box to my Winbox to swap files.
The problem with it is that the other Windows applications can’t see the files unless you drag them to the Windows drive, which is an SSD without much room on it. I really want to set up a network drive, but Samba isn’t cooperating.
You might want to try VirtualBox (which is being continually updated). One of the features is that you can set up a network drive when you create the virtual machine. However, if your host machine’s Samba is broken, you may be SOL. I have installed Vista, Win7 and even Win98 in VirtualBox, and have even got a halting version of Ecomstation (aka OS/2) to work. All of this is within Ubuntu as a host. Don’t know if Fedora is a problem. You seem to have frequent update issues.
I suspect that it’s some sort of firewall or SELinux on the host. I’ll have to go through error logs tomorrow. Know at least that samba is running on the host, and that I can scp to/from it from the Windows machine, but that doesn’t help with applications being able to browse that drive.