What OS are you using? in linux: (assumptions: you want to boot from cd and your cdrom is located at /dev/cdrom)
#cd /home/ #qemu-img create windows.img 500M #qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda windows.img > Daniel Carrera wrote: >> In any event, since you find it so easy to use, could you please tell me >> how to use it? > > I don't use it any more, I only needed it for a couple of days as it > happens. So I've completely forgotten everything, sorry ;-) > > Well, > >> The only reason why now I have a fair idea of how it works is because >> someone told me (on a different list). And it only took them 2 >> sentences. They said that the way qemu works is, you first create a >> blank disk image and then boot the virtual machine from a CD ROM and >> install normally. >> > There, that's just one sentence. That's an example of useful >> documentation, and notice that it's not long. Indeed, it's quite >> short. > > I guess that's where I found it clear to me. > > You see, I started from the view that Qemu is a PC simulator. > > So it must simulate a hard disk, a CD ROM, a network card, etc. > Everything just like a real PC, but in a window. > > So the process of installing an OS on it is exactly the same as > installing an OS on an ordinary PC. Which is usually from CD these > days, but you can use a floppy too. > > The only difference really is everything is simulated, so you use a > file containing a CD image instead of a real CD, a file containing a > hard disk image instead of a real hard disk, some options to simulate > a network card instead of a real one, etc., some options to simulate a > mouse and video card, etc. > > The actual procedure for installing Windows or whatever is pretty much > identical to doing it on a real PC. > > That doesn't mean it's easy, but the hard (or tedious) part is > generally not with using Qemu, but with using a PC to install Windows > or whatever. > > That can be quite difficult sometimes, but those wouldn't really be > Qemu questions as long as it's simulating a PC ok - they'd be OS > installation questions for any kind of PC. > >> To make this complete, all I need now is a command to tell me how >> to actually boot qemu and point it to both the CD DROM (e.g. the >> Ubuntu install CD, or the Windows install CD) an my newly-created >> blank disk image. > > I think Nathaniel just posted a list of command line options. > > Though, "qemu --help" and "man qemu" seem to list them too. > >> I should note another thing: Because the problem >> I'm pointing to is so fundamental, you're much less likely to hear >> about it. You're not going to hear about it much if the problem is >> that people can't even get started. You're only going to hear about >> problems that occur after someone gets started. I notice in your >> question that you assumed that I knew how to install at least one OS >> with qemu; I don't. > > Actually I didn't assume that. > > I assumed you knew how to install at least one OS on an ordinary PC. > > Installing it in Qemu is pretty much the same, other than using > simulated devices instead of real ones. And the simulated devices are > really easy to specify. There's a command line option to say that a > .iso file contains a simulated CD-ROM image (the same .iso file you'd > use for writing a CD-ROM), another option to say what file contains > the simulated hard disk, another option to say that you want to boot > from CD-ROM (simulated) instead of simulated floppy. I don't have > Qemu installed right now to say what those options are exactly, but I > remember that's not much more than those, if anything, and then you > get a window which looks just like a PC booting off CD-ROM... and you > do the same as you would with a real one from then on. > > -- Jamie > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
