Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

2007-07-29 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
> -nographic >Normally, QEMU uses SDL to display the VGA output. With this >option, you can totally disable graphical output so that QEMU > is a >simple command line application. The emulated serial port is > redi- >rected on the console. Therefore,

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

2007-07-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 29/07/07, Adam J Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The -vnc option looks like a win, maybe. > > That sounds good. Doesn't VNC require X, though? > Having not fiddled with it, I would hesitate to assume much. I would guess that it would work with mswin or X, and maybe with a terminal.

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

2007-07-29 Thread Adam J Richardson
The -vnc option looks like a win, maybe. That sounds good. Doesn't VNC require X, though? Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[E

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

2007-07-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 29/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It seems logical that qemu would need to run on top of X, in much the same > > way that Firefox [just to pick an example at random] won't work without X. > > I'm still a FreeBSD newbie though, so I have no idea how X works. I'm still

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

2007-07-29 Thread Adam J Richardson
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: 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 he

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

2007-07-29 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
It seems logical that qemu would need to run on top of X, in much the same way that Firefox [just to pick an example at random] won't work without X. I'm still a FreeBSD newbie though, so I have no idea how X works. I'm still struggling to upgrade my Xorg to 7.2. [Stupid missing OpenGL drivers

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

2007-07-29 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Have you tried using the vnc option and connecting to qemu through a vnc client? As I already said, I recommend starting out on a machine with X until you're more familiar with qemu, as the default settings pretty much do that anyway, but I expect a vnc connection will be the second easiest.

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

2007-07-29 Thread Bill Moran
Rakhesh Sasidharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 pos