On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:37:27PM +0200, Andrea Momesso wrote > And yes, I had read the AMD64 FAQs before installing, and I've been > happy with no-multilib for quita a while. I still have adobe flash > 10.0.45.2-r2 installed, but I understand it has serius security > problems, and I had to mask all higher versions.
I had a similar situation. I use one Windows app, that runs in WINE. WINE will not build without multi-lib support on a 64-bit install. I ended up installing QEMU-KVM, and then a 32-bit Gentoo guest inside that. Having done it once, the second time would be a lot easier. I went with 10 gig "main" disk image, and a 2 gig swap disk image. A quick rundown... Remember to build qemu-kvm with the sdl USE flag if you want video. Otherwise, it becomes a VNC-only server. You could tunnel X over that if you want. Also make sure that the host's kernel has tun/tap support built in. Install dhcpcd in the guest, and let it take care of the IP address. Create disks ============ qemu-img create -f raw g32_00_sda.img 10G qemu-img create -f raw g32_00_sdb.img 2G Boot the install CD image ========================= By default, they come up as /dev/hdx for the install, and /dev/sdx when booting from the latest kernel. "You can't get from here to there". You cannot configure /etc/lilo.conf to boot from /dev/sda1 and write it to the boot sector of what is currently /dev/hda1. Note the weird parameters necessary to force the disk images to come up as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb for the install. The following is 1 long line kvm -redir tcp:5555::22 -m 2048 -drive file=g32_00_sda.img,if=scsi,bus=0,unit=6 -drive file=g32_00_sdb.img,if=scsi,bus=1,unit=6 -cdrom gentoo32.iso -boot d Start the guest after install ============================= Do not be confused by the -hda and -hdb syntax, it actually comes up as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb kvm -localtime -startdate now -vga std -redir tcp:5555::22 -m 2048 -hda g32_00_sda.img -hdb g32_00_sdb.img -boot c I selected "-vga std" for the video emulation. I suggest the following 2 stps to generate maximum video resolution... 1) As root, run "X -configure" to generate an initial xorg.conf 2) Copy the horizontal and vertical sync settings from the host's xorg.conf to the guest's xorg.cong The "-redir tcp:5555::22" means that from the host, you can ssh -p 5555 u...@localhost to ssh into the guest. Similarly... scp -P 5555 fubar.txt u...@localhost:. will copy a file to account user on the guest. With dhcp, the guest can ssh/scp to the host, using its actual address (in my case 192.168.123.249), or the name if you set up /etc/hosts. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
