On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 16:13:50 +0100 Andrew Wood <andrewjamesw...@ymail.com> wrote:
> Can someone please help me configure QEMU on Jessie as the instructions > on the Wiki seem to not apply. The qemu command does not exist in > /usr/bin there are dozens of platform specific ones like /usr/bin/qemu-i386 > but these dont seem to accept the same args. I assume you meant https://wiki.debian.org/QEMU. So, for example: qemu -hda debian.img -cdrom debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso -boot d -m 256 translated to the language of current stable, means: qemu-system-x86_64 -hda debian.img -cdrom \ debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso -boot d -m 256 You may also need to add your user to "kvm" group. > Also why has qemu-launcher been removed from Jessie but it was in Wheezy > and its in testing? https://packages.qa.debian.org/q/qemu-launcher/news/20140802T163917Z.html says: Hint: <http://release.debian.org/britney/hints/auto-removals> Bug #753669: qemu-launcher: /usr/bin/qemu does not exist any more Basically, qemu-launcher merely run "qemu" with certain arguments, which ceased to work once Debian stopped providing "/usr/bin/qemu" executable. Which rendered the whole "qemu-launcher" unusable, and since the maintainer was not able to fix the package - it was rightfully removed from Jessie before the release. The bug is still open, and as far as I can tell, the problem of this package won't fix itself. Reco
