From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0DE91381F3 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:26:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB9F2E0AA6; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:26:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFCC9E0A99 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:26:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.137] (helo=smtp6.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2Hot-0004eD-Hf for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:26:47 +0200 Received: from 54698b76.cm-12-2c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([84.105.139.118] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp6.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2Hot-0002r7-8L for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:26:47 +0200 Received: from www.antarean.org (net.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.13]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E084B for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:26:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 83.80.30.114 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joost) by www.antarean.org with HTTP; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:26:36 +0200 Message-ID: <10394a3db288681b05d9d682956c3f14.squirrel@www.antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <51F0ED35.6090706@fastmail.co.uk> References: <20130724095025.GA24229@waltdnes.org> <20130725032451.GA26319@waltdnes.org> <51F0A695.6090407@fastmail.co.uk> <20130725085401.GA2303@waltdnes.org> <51F0ED35.6090706@fastmail.co.uk> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:26:36 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Ziggo-spambar: / X-Ziggo-spamscore: -0.9 X-Ziggo-spamreport: BAYES_00=-1.9,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982,RP_MATCHES_RCVD=0.001 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: 17840c8d-aa8a-462e-9165-1e74ad762097 X-Archives-Hash: 21a732c9c367285da77b4912e8b29d51 On Thu, July 25, 2013 11:17, Kerin Millar wrote: > On 25/07/2013 09:54, Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:16:21AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote >> I stumbled over the solution to my final problem by accident. When >> booting off the install cd, you have 15 seconds to "hit any key", or >> else it'll try to boot off the "hard drive". Given that I haven't >> installed yet, it'll try to boot off the blank pseudo "hard drive", an= d >> fail. Pressing any key will stop the timer. I prefer to type in... > > Just as on a real PC you can issue Ctrl+Alt+Del to have it reboot again > (without respawning qemu). Look for the three-finger-salute icon on the > toolbar. Which toolbar? >> * One more minor annoyance and workaround... the initial vncviewer >> screen is a 720x400 xterm. The install thinks it's in a 1024x768 >> framebuffer, so you get the bottom and right edges of the output >> clipped. As soon the penguin logo appears, you can close the xterm >> containing the vncviewer output, and open another vncviewer with th= e >> same command as the original. This new copy senses the correct >> "screensize" and you can go on with your install. > > That's odd. The VNC client should dynamically change the size of its > window as appropriate. Not all VNC-clients do this. Which do you use? -- Joost