Re: Virtualizing Win2K

[Javier Perez <pepebuho@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 7:24 AM Go Canes <letsgonhlcanes0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 6:22 AM Javier Perez <pepebuho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I want to virtualize win2k to play a game and I installed the virtualization packages
> I was able to create an VM using my old win2k cd no problem.
> Display was 640x480. Moving it to 800x600 gave me a black screen.

If they are available for Win2K you should download and install the
virtio-win bits in the Windows guest.  This should give you better
performance for disk and network, and will also allow you to change
the size of the display by changing the size of the VM window.

Off the top of my head you....
- dnf install virtio-win - this installs the .iso file on your hypervisor
- find the .iso file and connect it to the guest using virt-manager
(or whatever)
- within the guest use Windows Explorer, open the CD, find the .exe and run it
- shutdown the guest
- using virt-manager change the disk, network, and display to use virtio
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I tried that but could not find the virtio-win on the repositories. Is there any special repository where that might be available?

pepebuho@pepewin:~$ sudo dnf list '*virtio*'
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Installed Packages
qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu.x86_64                     2:8.2.2-1.fc40        @fedora
qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw.x86_64                 2:8.2.2-1.fc40        @fedora
qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-gl.x86_64                  2:8.2.2-1.fc40        @fedora
qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci.x86_64                 2:8.2.2-1.fc40        @fedora
qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-gl.x86_64              2:8.2.2-1.fc40        @fedora
qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-rutabaga.x86_64        2:8.2.2-1.fc40        @fedora
qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-rutabaga.x86_64            2:8.2.2-1.fc40        @fedora
qemu-device-display-virtio-vga.x86_64                     2:8.2.2-1.fc40        @fedora
qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-gl.x86_64                  2:8.2.2-1.fc40        @fedora
qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-rutabaga.x86_64            2:8.2.2-1.fc40        @fedora
virtiofsd.x86_64                                          1.10.1-1.fc40         @fedora
Available Packages
rust-virtio-bindings+default-devel.noarch                 0.2.2-2.fc40          fedora
rust-virtio-bindings+virtio-v4_14_0-devel.noarch          0.2.2-2.fc40          fedora
rust-virtio-bindings+virtio-v5_0_0-devel.noarch           0.2.2-2.fc40          fedora
rust-virtio-bindings-devel.noarch                         0.2.2-2.fc40          fedora
rust-virtio-queue+default-devel.noarch                    0.11.0-2.fc40         fedora
rust-virtio-queue+test-utils-devel.noarch                 0.11.0-2.fc40         fedora
rust-virtio-queue-devel.noarch                            0.11.0-2.fc40         fedora

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