Switch [Update]

Q January 30, 2006

3 easy steps to switch:

1. Download Q (Latest unstable build). Drag it to your applications folder and double-click.

2. Choose “Import Guest PCs from QemuX” from the Tools menu.


3. Wait. Q will copy all settings and virtual drives from the QemuX PCs, this will take a few minutes, so sit back and relax. Don’t wonder about the spinning beachball, it’s ok.

Once Q is finished importing, it will show a list of imported QemuX PCs.


4. Start enjoying the great features of Q!

If you do not want to use QemuX anymore, you can easily delete the following files and folders: /Applications/QemuX.app, /Applications/Qemu, ~/Documents/Qemu PC List.

If you have any questions or bug submissions, please write an e-mail to me: QemuX-(at)-cordney.com (replace the -(at)- with @).

Have fun! cordney*

UPDATE: There seemed to be a bug in Q with short harddisk names which affected the harddisk created by QemuX and led to a fatal boot error. This is fixed in the latest release (Q-0.8.0d562, 2/13/2006).

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17 Responses to “Switch [Update]”

  1. Michael Says:
    January 31st, 2006 at 2:48 am 1

    QemuX was a great introduction to QEMU and made using it so much easier. I have already started using Q, and look forward to you and Mike working together.

    Good luck with your studies.

    Regards,

    Michael
    Sydney, Australia

  2. gab Says:
    January 31st, 2006 at 8:57 am 2

    qemu rocks

  3. Kevin Davidson Says:
    February 2nd, 2006 at 11:35 pm 3

    What did I do wrong?
    All of my QemuX guests got carried across (a mixture of Linux and Windows). None of them boot.

    Boot from Hard Disk 0 failed
    FATAL: Not a bootable disk

    And Q spent a very long time doing something to the disk images it copied over to the qvm directories (what is it doing?)

  4. Ryan Says:
    February 3rd, 2006 at 11:56 pm 4

    Good news! Looking forward to more releases. It’d be nice if PPC worked too ;). (Not emulation, just virtual machines.)

  5. ntrc Says:
    February 4th, 2006 at 12:19 pm 5

    Thank you very much for the development of QemuX. Good luck for the future development of Q.

    Und alles Gute für Dein Studium in Bochum!

    ntrc

  6. Qemu user Says:
    February 8th, 2006 at 5:04 am 6

    Well the Q import doesn’t seem to work for me either; FATAL, not a bootable disk.

  7. Goli Says:
    February 14th, 2006 at 8:30 pm 7

    Hi
    My second step dos not work.
    I can’t import Guest PC from Qemux. It happens nothing, WHY ?
    I’m on iMac Intel

  8. Adam Says:
    February 17th, 2006 at 2:16 pm 8

    I saw the screenshot, Q is amazing :) thanks for your efforts. But one disappointing thing is I cannot access *.ch sites, so I cannot get Q now :( Will there be a mirror site for downloading?

    Adam

  9. Joey Says:
    February 20th, 2006 at 5:06 am 9

    Adam are you using Mac OS X?
    Because I am using Mac OS X 10.4.5 and am able to access .ch sites perfectly with Safari RSS

    -Joey

  10. Andreas Says:
    March 4th, 2006 at 5:41 pm 10

    Tried Q today. It rocks. Conversion from Virtual PC failed in one case, worked in another (but then bluescreen at boot), so I installed W2K from scratch. The W2k workaround flag more made it worse than it helped though. And at install I had to delete the drivers disk to get my install on C: instead of E:.

    But what the heck its beta. Can live with that.

    A word to Adam. If you can’t access swiss sites (.ch) then you have a stupid sysadmin who doesn’t know what he is doing. Ask him to learn that blocking .ch will by far not stop chineese websites (that would be .cn, and even the chineese can use .com or any other extension).

  11. Peter Says:
    March 6th, 2006 at 6:23 pm 11

    The software rocks, but somehow I can’t logon to Win2K. I’m supposed to press Ctrl+Alt+Del, but this doesn’t work.

    I went shopping for a workaround, and I found that on PowerBooks Del would be Fn + Backspace, and that sometimes the combination would be Command + Alt + Del (or Fn + Backspace), but none of them worked.

    Any ideas on how I could log on?

  12. Morgan Says:
    March 14th, 2006 at 8:03 am 12

    Hey, i tried this, and I got an error

    “Import of Qemux Guests Failed”

    can’t read oslist.plist!

    -morgan

  13. Samuël Says:
    March 16th, 2006 at 8:42 pm 13

    I’m searching for a Windows emulator in Dutch. Is there any chance that it will be translated?

  14. Jan Peters Says:
    March 17th, 2006 at 8:02 pm 14

    Will QEMU accelerator work on the Intel Macs? That would be a GREAT improvement!

  15. hwang Says:
    March 23rd, 2006 at 11:11 am 15

    thank you

  16. Kribe Says:
    April 4th, 2006 at 1:28 pm 16

    When I try to Import Guest PCs from QemuX I get error message:

    Import of QemuX Guests failed
    Cant’t read oslist.plist!

    What to do?

  17. Mark Walker Says:
    April 10th, 2006 at 11:59 pm 17

    Your screenshots have the Tiger apple in the corner, but then they would as Q does not work in Panther (which has a much nicer apple). I tracked down qemuX in the hope that it could cope with Panther and was dissappointed that it has gone. I approve of similar projects uniting, and hope that you can get Q working in Panther again. You link to the Apple Unix page did however give me a link for an earlier version of Q which is working in Panther. I also managed to download QemuX 0.15 via Version Tracker and then it automatically downloaded 0.6, why not a link for confused Panthers on this site?