qemu change virtual hardware after update

2021-02-20 Thread Simon Becherer
Hi, i am new here on this list, so if this problem was discussed/solved somewhere else, please point me to it. i use qemu (at the moment 5.2) with virt-manager on opensuse tumbleweed. is there a way to prevent qemu from updating virtualized hardware inside the virtualization? as example: someti

Re: How to make a VM guest look like just another metal machine on my LAN?

2021-02-21 Thread Simon Becherer
Hi, Am 21.02.21 um 09:46 schrieb Steve Litt: > Hi all, > . . . > > Steve Litt > Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times > http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive > i have only partly read your mail. but i think it sounds like a problem similar to one i have had with th

Re: shared disk (DOS)

2021-04-13 Thread Simon Becherer
Am 13.04.21 um 12:02 schrieb Tomas By: > All I need is 2-4 DOS instances sharing a directory somewhere. > /Tomas > why not use "dosbox" (or a other dos emulation) and forget qemu for this purpose. simoN -- www.becherer.de signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Windows 9x - which graphic?

2021-06-07 Thread Simon Becherer
Am 06.06.21 um 14:19 schrieb Kamil Jońca: > > I try to install my windows 9x instances under qemu. Although > installation finished successuflly, and I can log in into newly > installed guest I cannot achieve an graphic mode better than 640x480 (in > particular I would use 1024x768) > I tried mi

Again, qemu changed virtual hardware

2021-06-20 Thread Simon Becherer
Hi, i like to ask again here: how did i fix the virtual hardware that quemu will after updates still send the guests the same hardware as before?? i updated today to 6.0.0-26.1 (opensusetumbleweed) windows xp: lost the network controller, but has a identical new (e1000) network controller

Re: Backing up Windows Guest

2021-07-27 Thread Simon Becherer
Am 27.07.21 um 18:08 schrieb Chris Moody: > Hi all, > > Thinking of doing a distrohop, one issue I've had in the past when doing this > is the Windows seems to know that its environment has changed causing issues > with its registration. > > Is there a way to backup this file in such a way th

Re: Virtual FAT disk images

2021-09-09 Thread Simon Becherer
Yes, as i know this ist the qemu list, but as i see from the response (i am on this list since 5 month), its more or less developement and only if you get "luck" a answer for "simple" user questions here. by the way, what ist your cc quemu-bl...@nonmguru.org simoN Am 09.09.21 um 09:32 schrieb Pa

Re: External snapshots and using qemu without libvirt

2021-09-13 Thread Simon Becherer
Am 13.09.21 um 16:34 schrieb Leek, Jim: > I'm still messing about with qemu snapshots. I have internal snapshots > working OK. But I read this in the RHEL documentation: "Important: Red Hat > recommends the use of external snapshots." Then on a later page I found this: > "However, external s

Re: How to enlarge qemu display ?

2022-11-07 Thread Simon Becherer
Am 07.11.22 um 10:49 schrieb Pierre Couderc via: > I use a XP guest  in qemu on  linux. > > I use a 4K monitor and my 800x600 XP windows is very very small, lost in the > 4K monitor. > > I do not want  to change my 800x600 size nor my monitor. > > But I would like to enlarge the XP window so

Re: How to enlarge qemu display ?

2022-11-07 Thread Simon Becherer
Am 07.11.22 um 13:52 schrieb Pierre Couderc via: > > On 11/7/22 12:10, Simon Becherer wrote: >> >> Am 07.11.22 um 10:49 schrieb Pierre Couderc via: >>> I use a XP guest  in qemu on  linux. >>> >>> I use a 4K monitor and my 800x600 XP windows is

Re: How to enlarge qemu display ?

2022-11-07 Thread Simon Becherer
Am 07.11.22 um 16:42 schrieb Pierre Couderc via: > > I have never gone in virt-manager, but I suppose that there sould be > corresponding  native instruction... > i changed about 3 years in past from my shellscripts to virt-manager and i have never repented it. simoN -- www.becherer.de

qemu 8.0.4

2023-08-25 Thread Simon Becherer
Hi, is there a known bug for: my windows xp qemu boxes (host is opensuse tumbleweed amd processor) will not start any more after updating to qemu 8.0.4 old linux (suse 10) starts, and windows 10 starts. and if, is there a work around? thanks, simoN -- HINWEIS: Wenn Sie diese "reintext" M

Re: qemu 8.0.4 windows xp not working

2023-08-25 Thread Simon Becherer
Am 25.08.23 um 11:22 schrieb Simon Becherer: Hi, is there a known bug for: my windows xp qemu boxes (host is opensuse tumbleweed amd processor) will not start any more after updating to qemu 8.0.4 old linux (suse 10) starts, and windows 10 starts. and if, is there a work around? thanks

Re: qemu 8.0.4 windows xp not working

2023-08-25 Thread Simon Becherer
BUG CREATED: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1214628 simoN Am 25.08.23 um 12:28 schrieb Simon Becherer: Am 25.08.23 um 11:22 schrieb Simon Becherer: Hi, is there a known bug for: my windows xp qemu boxes (host is opensuse tumbleweed amd processor) will not start any more

Re: Windows VM's getting hung up on boot

2023-08-28 Thread Simon Becherer
Am 28.08.23 um 17:13 schrieb Jay Lepore: I have had an ongoing though occassional problems with Windows failing to reboot and getting stuck right here.  I am guessing it comes after some kind of forced reboot during an unattended Windows update but that still doesn't explain the hang. Has anyon

Re: difference between command line and virtual machine manager

2023-09-08 Thread Simon Becherer
Am 08.09.23 um 12:41 schrieb w...@gmx.com: I am a newbie when it comes to QEMU/KVM. So bear with my questions. To explain what I am doing, I am a ham radio operator, and need to run Winlink radio email and VARA in Windows. That is all I use windows for. Wine is not sufficient to run it for some

Re: Accelerator in ARM-based macOS

2024-02-26 Thread Simon Becherer
Am 26.02.24 um 11:33 schrieb Serdar Bahar: Hello, I'm a newbie in QEMU and I'm using it on an Apple Silicon macOS (ARM-based). I use the default accelerator tcg to run a virtual machine with Ubuntu but it is quite slow. I tried commands like "-enable-kvm" or "-accel xyz"  but every one of the

Re: How to use UEFI_VARS.fd using virt-manager on Ubuntu 24.04...

2024-10-01 Thread Simon Becherer
Am 01.10.24 um 14:40 schrieb Mario Marietto: Hello. On FreeBSD I've installed Windows 11 on the first partition of a 200 GB disk and Android X86 on the second partition of a 200 GB image file called "Android.img". This is how I boot Android : |/usr/sbin/./bhyve-win -S -c sockets=4,cores=2,t