Bug#610697: grub-common: start windows XP from raw.qemu into EXT3 partition

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 01/21/2011 03:28 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On 01/21/2011 02:52 PM, yellow wrote:
>   
>> Package: grub-common
>> Version: 1.98+20100804-11
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I would like to use windows XP without emulation (so no wine, nor qmeu, or vmware or others) 
>> so directly to start with 100% power microsoft windows XP at normal speed and performances
>>
>> - well you would tell me : dual boot man !
>>
>> - well ok, but I do not want to install a NTFS and keep the RAW image of my qmeu and use it from teh Boot Grub 
>> that launches it like dual booting but will write all those stuff into RAW image located into my ext3
>>
>>   
>>     
> While it is possible to make bootmgr/ntldr/any other program using BIOS
> calls think that a given file is a real disk by intercepting int 13h, it
> won't get you far. The problem is that the moment windows/any other
> modern OS switches to its own device drivers it will fail to find its
> boot device and throw error/bluescreen/reboot. GNU/Linux is able to do
> such tricks only because by the means of initramfs one has complete
> control over from where to mount the root. No such luxury in m$ OSes.
> While this is feasible by writing special disk driver which will add
> this "virtual disk", I doubt this is the right place to find the people
> with both right knowledge and motivation
>   
On the other hand many coders including myself are available for hire.
>> please could you code that.,.. it is not that hard in principle, with using all today's tools.
>>
>>   
>>     
Can you please resurect this body? it is not that hard in principle,
with using all today's tools.
>   
>> Thank you in advnance !
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Y.
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>>   APT prefers testing
>>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
>> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
>> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>>
>> Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
>> ii  base-files              5.10             Debian base system miscellaneous f
>> ii  dpkg                    1.15.8.7         Debian package management system
>> ii  gettext-base            0.18.1.1-3       GNU Internationalization utilities
>> ii  install-info            4.13a.dfsg.1-6   Manage installed documentation in 
>> ii  libc6                   2.11.2-7         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
>> ii  libdevmapper1.02.1      2:1.02.48-4      The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
>> ii  libfreetype6            2.4.2-2.1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
>> ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
>>
>> Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
>> ii  os-prober                     1.42       utility to detect other OSes on a 
>>
>> Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
>> pn  grub-emu                      <none>     (no description available)
>> pn  multiboot-doc                 <none>     (no description available)
>> pn  xorriso                       <none>     (no description available)
>>
>> -- no debconf information
>>
>>
>>
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>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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