Qemu XP Under Windows 2000

I installed XP using Qemu on my Windows 2000 machine.

I had trouble getting the function keys to work. I had to switch from my USB keyboard to a PS/2 connector to get it to work.

I was able to get XP installed under Qemu. However, I could not get it to run.

It was a long a painful process which I don't want to do again, but probably will :-(

Virtual Machine Monitor (Hypervisor)

A hypervisor (virtual machine monitor) is a virtualization platform that allows multiple operating systems to run on a host computer at the same time.

The Wikipedia has a good description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor

Some examples are:

QEMU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU
The windows version is in the alpha stage: http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/
There is a windows front end: http://www.davereyn.co.uk/software.htm

VMware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware

Microsfot Virtual Server: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Virtual_Server
This package looks like it is limit to work on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.