[gentoo-user] qemu command line

[gentoo-user] qemu command line

[Francisco Ares]

Hi, All

Reading the qemu man page, i guess that I'm doing things right, but 
that's not what qemu thinks ;-)

I've created a 4G file like this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=qemu.hd bs=1024 count=4194304

and now I wish to install a Windoze98 in that fake hard disk like this:

qemu-i386 -boot d -cdrom /dev/dvd -m 128 -fda /dev/fd0 -hda qemu.hd

When i do this it gives me the help screen.

Am I missing something else?

Thanks
Francisco

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Re: [gentoo-user] qemu command line

[John Drouhard]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 14:04 -0200, Francisco Ares wrote:
> Hi, All
> 
> Reading the qemu man page, i guess that I'm doing things right, but 
> that's not what qemu thinks ;-)
> 
> I've created a 4G file like this:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=qemu.hd bs=1024 count=4194304
> 
> and now I wish to install a Windoze98 in that fake hard disk like this:
> 
> qemu-i386 -boot d -cdrom /dev/dvd -m 128 -fda /dev/fd0 -hda qemu.hd

You need to run the command qemu, not qemu-i386. If that binary does not
exist, then you need to recompile qemu with the "softmmu" USE flag
turned on.

John


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Re: [gentoo-user] qemu command line

[Francisco Ares]

John Drouhard wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 14:04 -0200, Francisco Ares wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi, All
>>
>>Reading the qemu man page, i guess that I'm doing things right, but 
>>that's not what qemu thinks ;-)
>>
>>I've created a 4G file like this:
>>
>>dd if=/dev/zero of=qemu.hd bs=1024 count=4194304
>>
>>and now I wish to install a Windoze98 in that fake hard disk like this:
>>
>>qemu-i386 -boot d -cdrom /dev/dvd -m 128 -fda /dev/fd0 -hda qemu.hd
>>    
>>
>
>You need to run the command qemu, not qemu-i386. If that binary does not
>exist, then you need to recompile qemu with the "softmmu" USE flag
>turned on.
>
>John
>
>
>  
>
I guess that's the point.  Funny thing this is not its default.  Gonna 
try it and let you know the result.

Thanks
Francisco

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Re: [gentoo-user] qemu command line

[Francisco Ares]

Francisco Ares wrote:

> John Drouhard wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 14:04 -0200, Francisco Ares wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hi, All
>>>
>>> Reading the qemu man page, i guess that I'm doing things right, but 
>>> that's not what qemu thinks ;-)
>>>
>>> I've created a 4G file like this:
>>>
>>> dd if=/dev/zero of=qemu.hd bs=1024 count=4194304
>>>
>>> and now I wish to install a Windoze98 in that fake hard disk like this:
>>>
>>> qemu-i386 -boot d -cdrom /dev/dvd -m 128 -fda /dev/fd0 -hda qemu.hd
>>>   
>>
>>
>> You need to run the command qemu, not qemu-i386. If that binary does not
>> exist, then you need to recompile qemu with the "softmmu" USE flag
>> turned on.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> I guess that's the point.  Funny thing this is not its default.  Gonna 
> try it and let you know the result.
>
> Thanks
> Francisco
>
And that was really the point, now it is working.

Thanks John.
Francisco


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