Re: Running QEMU from a cron job

2007-02-23 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nate Bargmann wrote: >> And do not forget that QEMU is mostly a GUI application, so you will >> probably need to run xorg. > > Thanks for pointing that out. That may be another area to work around > as well. As Joshua Kugler already stated, you can

Re: Running QEMU from a cron job

2007-02-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Linas ??virblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Feb 23 10:01 -0600]: > A much simpler solution would be to have QEMU started by cron, and set > up the guest OS to shut down after doing something. Or you could run > QEMU in snapshot mode and simply kill it, when not needed. Or... the > possibilities ar

Re: Running QEMU from a cron job

2007-02-23 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 23 February 2007 07:00, Linas Žvirblis wrote: > And do not forget that QEMU is mostly a GUI application, so you will > probably need to run xorg. You can run qemu headless, with a virtual framebuffer. Makes for a virtual machine you connect to via VNC to view. -- Joshua Kugler

Re: Running QEMU from a cron job

2007-02-23 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nate Bargmann wrote: > I am wanting to restart a QEMU virtual machine from a cron entry, let > the VM do something, and then after a period of time freeze the VM > until the next day. After reading the docs and browsing the Web for a > few days, I'm

Running QEMU from a cron job

2007-02-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
I am wanting to restart a QEMU virtual machine from a cron entry, let the VM do something, and then after a period of time freeze the VM until the next day. After reading the docs and browsing the Web for a few days, I'm not so sure this is possible. Of course, much control is available interacti