QEMU/Guests/Windows 2000

Windows 2000 is an operating system created by Microsoft, released on December 15, 1999. Support ended in September 2010. It comes in four different versions: Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server.

Running on CollabVM

Windows 2000 works fine as a VM for CollabVM. Since it is slightly outdated, a user may not be able to install certain modern programs. However, you can follow a guide to run modern Chrome & Firefox on Windows 2000.

Recommended version: Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4

Starting up

These instructions apply to both the Desktop and Server versions.

QEMU

Pre-installation

Make a qcow2 image (or a raw image if you want) by typing

qemu-img create -f qcow2 win2000.img 5G

5G can be replaced with however big you want the hard drive to be (with G standing for Gigabytes). Windows 2000 is not a heavy OS and requires about 1 GB of minimum space. 5G is a good enough size although 10G should be used if you want your VM to have a few programs pre-installed.

When that's done, run the following command:

qemu-system-i386 -hda win2000.img -cdrom win2000_iso_name.iso -boot d -enable-kvm -cpu host -m 256 -vga cirrus -net nic,model=pcnet -net user -usbdevice tablet -localtime

Or if running without root or virtualization:

qemu-system-i386 -hda win2000.img -cdrom win2000_iso_name.iso -boot d -cpu pentium3 -m 256 -vga cirrus -net nic,model=pcnet -net user -usbdevice tablet -localtime

After installation

qemu-system-i386 -hda win2000.img-boot c -enable-kvm -cpu host -m 256 -vga cirrus -net nic,model=pcnet -net user -usbdevice tablet -localtime