[GUIDE] Win 95/98/XP and Linux OS (Knoppix/Ubuntu etc) on Xperia S No root needed!!! - Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go

Yes ! Now you can run x86 based operating systems on your Xperia S. No root needed
IS A VIRTUAL MACHINE, DOESN'T TOUCH ANDROID
The windows 95/98 works great on my Xperia S
All credits to their respective developers.....
Instructions :
1.Download and install Bochs2_5_1.apk (stable but slower) or QEMU.apk (unstable but faster)
2.Download SDL(BOCHS).zip for Bochs2_5_1.apk and SDL(QEMU).zip for QEMU.apk and extract on root of sdcard , so path should be sdcard/SDL/*.*
3.Put a disk image of type ".img" of any operating system in SDL folder and rename it to "c.img" (tested : win 95/98/XP ----------------Linux OSs like Ubuntu/Knoppix/redhat etc can also be used)
4.here i uploaded an img of windows 98 http://www.mediafire.com/?ec76dg96qspyx5k (just change the extention from .mp3 to .zip, extract and here you go)
5.Run Bochs or LibSDL from appdrawer. Let it boot (takes few secs) and enjoy.
How to Create .IMG from .VHD disk image in Second Post
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Instructions (BOCHS) :
- The screen works as touchpad to control the mouse cursor and volume up/down works as left/right click.
- You can also tap the screen to generate left click.(this does not work everytime)
- Back = BackSpace, Menu = Enter, left-upper corner click generates TAB
- left-lower corner click popups keyboard
( For a desktop like experience use this keyboard -> Hackers Keyboard, or a usb keyboard using the usb host cable)
-Create a folder called "HDD" on the root of your SDcard and put your softwares/files or anything in there. When you boot windows, then in "My Computer" you will see "d" drive which will have the "HDD" folder contents. So you can install/use them in Windows.
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Instructions (QEMU):
- The screen works as touchpad to control the mouse cursor.
- You can also tap the screen to generate left click (right click is not possible AFAIK) .
- Back = BackSpace, Holding Menu = popups keyboard
( For a desktop like experience use this keyboard -> Hackers Keyboard or a usb keyboard using the usb host cable )
- No custom files can be used as of now, will find a way and post here again.
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Some freeware disk images can be found on the next links (not sure if any of them will work as i have not tested , only win 95/98/XP are tested.)
HERE and HERE
thanks to:
mnomaanw, and all the developers working on this project

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How to Create .IMG Disk Image from .VHD
1. Download ISO Recorder here
2. Mount the VHD
-Windows 7
-Go to your start menu, right click on Computer, and choose 'manage'
-On the left, click on 'Disk Management' (may take a few moments)
-Click on 'More Actions' and choose 'Attach VHD'
-Choose your VHD
3. Open Windows Exporer
4. Right click on the newly mounted VHD and select 'Create ISO Image File' and when saving, choose save as any file type.
5. Save as c.img
Thanks to chessmaster W/nook for posting these instructions
OR:
I found this somewhere on a non English site, so I translated it via google.....Much part of the guide is understandable.
(Instructions)
Download QEMU for companies
Create a folder on the C drive and extract all the qemu from the archive there.
(Go to the folder in the console)
(hard way)
Win XP: Start> Run> cmd
Win 7: The push buttons Win + R, write cmd and click on OK
Writing in the console
Code
cd c: \ qemu
(easy way, but it only works on Win 7)
Go to the folder qemu (not necessarily on drive C)
Hold down Shift, click on the empty space of the open folder, right-click
In the menu click on "Open Command Window"
Create an image of your hard disk - write to the console
Code
qemu-img create-f raw disk.img 2000M
(Where)
disk.img - the name of the hard disk
2000M - the size in megabytes (the size can be anything, if only Windows was placed, but just the 2000M).
Create (. Iso) image c installation disk Windows XP (look in Advanced) and rename it to image.iso
Copy it to the folder c: \ qemu
If the c: \ qemu disk image is the image of the hard drive then run QEMU - write to the console
Code
qemu.exe-m 1024-boot d-cdrom image.iso-hda disk.img
(Where)
1024-m - amount of RAM available to QEMU
-Boot d - to boot from cd-rom
-Cdrom image.iso - our installation CD
-Hda disk.img - hard disk image
(Install windows as usual)
Format to NTFS required (do not be lazy is a very fast)
Creating a Windows completed.
Disk.img take out of the c: \ qemu and copy the smart
(Now set up the Smart)
Download BOCHS for Android
Download the SDL: SDL.zip (47.85 KB) Number of downloads: 240
Installation:
Install apk
Unpack the archive in the SDL sdcard / SDL
disk.img move to the sdcard / SDL
(Edit file bochsrc.txt)
Neither of which do not touch, but here:
# What disk images will be used
# Floppya: 1_44 = W98RUS.img, status = inserted
change the name of the image as follows:
# What disk images will be used
# Floppya: 1_44 = disk.img, status = inserted
and here:
ata0-master: type = disk, path = "c.img"
change to:
ata0-master: type = disk, path = "disk.img"
All store and run Bochs
We look forward to and enjoy!

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that sounds great
just to make sure that i have understand the general idea
so it is about running windows 98 as any other application on Android ??
and it will not replace the original OS

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mohammed510 said:
that sounds great
just to make sure that i have understand the general idea
so it is about running windows 98 as any other application on Android ??
and it will not replace the original OS
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yes is a virtual machine dosent touch android
vitorugo-8 said:
one video showing that working will be good
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i will do it tomorrow

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one video showing that working will be good

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vitorugo-8 said:
one video showing that working will be good
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We did not take vids but there's a few screenshots here http://www.xperiagamer.com/Apps/windows-on-xperia.html we tried this few weeks back and worked well on the xperia s
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i can not install bochs.apk and qemu.apk parse error problem

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cannot extract .zip files. I've tried both

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hololodilolo said:
cannot extract .zip files. I've tried both
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Try the link 2 posts above. I uploaded them and both should be fully working.
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marcoplo said:
i can not install bochs.apk and qemu.apk parse error problem
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Same here
Update: Copies in this link work perfectly!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459153

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Thanx
Bookmarking the post! will read it and do it later!

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i've tried it on my SGS2....nice ... I have XP on my phone
Btw... is there a way on how to make it faster and snapier..??

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baramuli said:
i've tried it on my SGS2....nice ... I have XP on my phone
Btw... is there a way on how to make it faster and snapier..??
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Not really. Different architectures, you can only emulate and not virtualize.

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baramuli said:
i've tried it on my SGS2....nice ... I have XP on my phone
Btw... is there a way on how to make it faster and snapier..??
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To make this faster is possibile but not on curent generation of phone Maybe on the newgen of Huawei soC at x64 but the project is still in Very Very Alpha
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optik19918 said:
To make this faster is possibile but not on curent generation of phone Maybe on the newgen of Huawei soC at x64 but the project is still in Very Very Alpha
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Nope. Even ARMv8 won't really be able to virtualize desktop CPUs. I've had a chance to play with a TI board and the thing is badass, but it doesn't have hardware virtualization.

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Thx
thanks for your work, I'll test.

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I cant make it work, i already try with win 98, and win 95, it always show only like the BIOS screen and then it close, (no force closing, just close)
what a shame

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jacker60 said:
I cant make it work, i already try with win 98, and win 95, it always show only like the BIOS screen and then it close, (no force closing, just close)
what a shame
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i tested again now and works, with BOCHS i will test the other one to!
the win 98 img i uploaded is damaged, upolading right now w95 tested and working,
maybe your windows img is damaged
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What advantages does this bring?

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naughtb4 said:
What advantages does this bring?
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It's one of those "because you can" things
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