On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 04:02, <c...@crg.eti.br> wrote: > > I'm trying to install FreeDOS in a virtual machine via virt-install, as the > host machine is remote and doesn't have a graphical environment, so I only > have access via ssh. Still, I can export the installer screen via VNC. > > The installation process loads, and I can get to the part of creating the > primary partition, but I need to restart the machine after partitioning, and > I cannot resume the installation from that point forward.
OK. > Does anyone have experience with virt-install + FreeDOS? Well, no, but I have used KVM This is normal behaviour for KVM, whatever UI you use to control it. It does a strange temporary-attach of a CD image *for the first run only* and then the developers assumed the OS was fully installed and automatically detach the CD image. You can manually attach the ISO instead and then it will stay there until you eject it. That may be preferable. Another alternative: use a Linux boot ISO to make the partitions for DOS, and copy the the VHD image into place afterwards. You should be able to use Virtual Machine Manager remotely over ssh with no need for X.11 or VNC. In theory a VM created with any tool that talks to KVM should be able to manage the same VMs. VMM worked for me as it's vaguely similar to VirtualBox and VMware player/workstation/server, which I am personally more familiar with. > It would probably be more straightforward for me to use qemu directly, but as > I already have several VMs running managed by virt-manager, I wanted to keep > using it for FreeDOS. No problem. You don't need QEMU itself. It's an emulator. KVM is the underlying hypervisor here. It uses QEMU tools for creating disk images and things, but it doesn't use the core QEMU emulator for running x86 OSes on x86. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
