From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 29 18:34:49 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A34616A418 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:34:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6FC513C45D for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:34:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w9so1432861mue for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:34:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dXxdCBdCnmkruHOdig5NCaHojYTLDUiZXz0CwUTNPZeeZQ7TZwPeR/ZkjP+Y1e7um7X33uL+S/tp95I3ayGyilEGP4DTgNP0wu6lTKpMTjm8ycOWBTnmzN9v0dX+0wZzFgtNJZ47xjXjTfhwWHMlF+2tuRMKJawdajKzGtrP4mM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SOxLI3o3A10yV+z305lN1lNMu3WqaXAMvkVu3IODo6NEt4tjZbWUW1ekxzsGAZJhNLsTOYrwMIK8/pU3uK2T1P60w1B+rEd2QV/RlB7FEQD4jNCW8m74OTNv99cfD0kBWVsVoYLBounHG73cBvN7navbgNkuASICFkjTWQ0JFT0= Received: by 10.82.178.11 with SMTP id a11mr3628905buf.1185734087273; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:34:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.185.5 with HTTP; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:34:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:34:47 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Rakhesh Sasidharan" In-Reply-To: <20070729183112.U11398@asterix.home.rakhesh.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <55021.212.72.24.148.1185715537.squirrel@rakhesh.com> <46AC9EED.3030904@crackmonkey.us> <20070729183112.U11398@asterix.home.rakhesh.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Adam J Richardson Subject: Re: Nothing happens with Qemu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:34:49 -0000 On 29/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > > It seems logical that qemu would need to run on top of X, in much the same > > way that Firefox [just to pick an example at random] won't work without X. > > I'm still a FreeBSD newbie though, so I have no idea how X works. I'm still > > struggling to upgrade my Xorg to 7.2. [Stupid missing OpenGL drivers! >:( ] > > Agreed, just that there are references a lot of places on the Net that > Qemu can work without X. And the -no-graphic option is to force it to > start that way in case you don't have X. Strange ... > >From the man page: -nographic Normally, QEMU uses SDL to display the VGA output. With this option, you can totally disable graphical output so that QEMU is a simple command line application. The emulated serial port is redi- rected on the console. Therefore, you can still use QEMU to debug a Linux kernel with a serial console. But, I do not think you can run most (any?) installers like this, without the serial console being redirected to _something_, and if you're doing this over ssh, that default something may not be immediately visible. The -vnc option looks like a win, maybe. Per above (not quoted) -cdrom /dev/acd0 might not work if the permissions are not set correctly on /dev/acd0. It is usually easier under qemu to use the downloaded image instead of burning to CD and all that. Or use dd to make a new image if you've already deleted it. -- --