Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:34:47 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Rakhesh Sasidharan" <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Adam J Richardson <fatman.uk@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Nothing happens with Qemu Message-ID: <d7195cff0707291134m18babc29n5b3de36d43f3b7a7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070729183112.U11398@asterix.home.rakhesh.com> References: <55021.212.72.24.148.1185715537.squirrel@rakhesh.com> <46AC9EED.3030904@crackmonkey.us> <20070729183112.U11398@asterix.home.rakhesh.com>
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On 29/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> 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.
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