Hi, I'm trying to get Qemu working on my FreeBSD 6.2 PC. But nothing seems to be happening. I posted my problem at the Qemu forums but haven't got any replies there (I wonder if any one even uses those forums coz mine is like the last post there!) Just trying my luck here too in case I get some tips/ ideas.
Installed Qemu from the ports. Without SDL (coz I don't have X etc installed and I just SSH into this box). With KQEMU module. After that I ran "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/kqemu" for loading the modules "aio" and "kqemu". All went fine. Next I created a 2G image. "qemu-img create /tmp/something.img 2G". That too went fine. Then I tried to install some OS into this image. Put the CD in the drive, and tried "qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/acd0 -hda /tmp/something.img". But nothing happens! The CD starts spinning in the drive but nothing happens after that. I ran "top" and I can see the qemu process is active and taking some 128MB memory, but there's no other signs of life. I tried the above with two OSes. I tried with an Ubuntu server and also an OpenBSD 4.1. Tried both to make sure its not a OS specific problem. I even ripped the CDs to ISO files and tried running from that (coz I read someplace that FreeBSD Qemu has problems reading from CDs). But no luck ... whatever I do, nothing happens. I also tried with the "-full-screen" option. But no go. Finally, I tried running with the -nographic option. I remm reading somewhere that that usually helps. That time I get a "(qemu)" prompt and that's it -- nothing happens. Tried stuff like Ctrl+Alt+1,2,F, etc but nothing happens. Can't even Ctrl-C out. Finally had to kill the process from another terminal. I also tried with the option -monitor stdio. That gives me a (qemu) prompt in which I can type commands. But I couldn't figure a way to proceed further after that. I tried all these steps through SSH as well as on the console (including uncommenting the console entry in /etc/tty and trying). No luck. Any ideas what could be going wrong? I figure it must be something to do with me not having X and not compiling Qemu with SDL/ X support ... is that the case? Thanks, Rakhesh _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
