Re: [Qemu-devel] Installing a guest WXP on a MacOS X host

[Joe Menola]

On Mon July 19 2004 11:21 am, Laurent Amon wrote:
> If you have not done so, you need to create a blank dmg image as a hard
> drive using Disk Uility. You will then partition it and format it. I guess
> that the XP installation process wil take care of that for you, but if not,
> you may have to boot from a floppy image in order to use fdisk (XP may not
> like the Apple partition map). Just in case, with W95 at least, you must
> not forget to Activate the partition with fdisk. Qemu will fail if you do
> not.

Avoid using Win95 to partition and format. Win95 uses fat16 and is limitted in 
size to 2gb, not enough for XP, IMHO.Better to use at least Win98.

http://www.bootdisk.com/

-jm