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  • Raspberry pi 4b emulating Windows 2000/XP (Updated)

    It is tough to run a usable x86 system on qemu-x86_64. But I made it! I use the hugepages to accelerate the system because it is a strong-on-weak memory order for ARM64 CPU running guest systems like Windows. Further, we should also assign only one vCPU and set the Windows 2000 as ACPI uniprocessor PC,…

  • Raspberry pi 4b emulating Windows 2000

    I will share the QML file here: <domain xmlns:qemu=”http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0″ type=”qemu”> <name>win2k-x86_64</name> <uuid>24828db7-6937-4da1-ab6b-317267af4156</uuid> <metadata> <libosinfo:libosinfo xmlns:libosinfo=”http://libosinfo.org/xmlns/libvirt/domain/1.0″> <libosinfo:os id=”http://microsoft.com/win/2k”/> </libosinfo:libosinfo> </metadata> <memory unit=”KiB”>524288</memory> <currentMemory unit=”KiB”>524288</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <hugepages/> </memoryBacking> <vcpu placement=”static”>1</vcpu> <os> <type arch=”x86_64″ machine=”pc-i440fx-7.2″>hvm</type> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <hyperv mode=”custom”> <relaxed state=”on”/> <vapic state=”on”/> <spinlocks state=”on” retries=”8191″/> </hyperv> <vmport state=”off”/> </features> <cpu mode=”custom” match=”exact” check=”none”> <model fallback=”forbid”>qemu64</model>…

  • Windows XP English Version to install Asia fonts

    Click on Start, Control Panel, Regional Options, Languages tab,Check Install files for East Asian languagesClick on Apply Then insert the fonts downloaded from here.