Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:20:43 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nothing happens with Qemu Message-ID: <20070729102043.de9f85c8.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <55021.212.72.24.148.1185715537.squirrel@rakhesh.com> References: <55021.212.72.24.148.1185715537.squirrel@rakhesh.com>
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Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> 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 here too in case I get some > tips/ ideas. > > Installed Qemu from the ports. Without SDL (coz I don't have X etc > installed and I just SSH into this box). With KQEMU module. After that I > ran "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/kqemu" for loading the modules "aio" and "kqemu". > All went fine. > > Next I created a 2G image. "qemu-img create /tmp/something.img 2G". That > too went fine. > > Then I tried to install some OS into this image. Put the CD in the drive, > and tried "qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/acd0 -hda /tmp/something.img". But > nothing happens! The CD starts spinning in the drive but nothing happens > after that. I ran "top" and I can see the qemu process is active and > taking some 128MB memory, but there's no other signs of life. > > I tried the above with two OSes. I tried with an Ubuntu server and also an > OpenBSD 4.1. Tried both to make sure its not a OS specific problem. I even > ripped the CDs to ISO files and tried running from that (coz I read > someplace that FreeBSD Qemu has problems reading from CDs). But no luck > ... whatever I do, nothing happens. > > I also tried with the "-full-screen" option. But no go. That option probably requires X to work. Normally, qemu runs under X. If you're new to qemu, you'll probably have an easier time with the learning curve if you start out on a machine with X installed, as the default setting work well with that. > Finally, I tried running with the -nographic option. I remm reading > somewhere that that usually helps. That time I get a "(qemu)" prompt and > that's it -- nothing happens. Tried stuff like Ctrl+Alt+1,2,F, etc but > nothing happens. Can't even Ctrl-C out. Finally had to kill the process > from another terminal. You're in the qemu Monitor at that point. I doubt CTRL+ALT+1 will help at that point, because you haven't specified anywhere for the console to connect to. > I also tried with the option -monitor stdio. That gives me a (qemu) prompt > in which I can type commands. But I couldn't figure a way to proceed > further after that. > > I tried all these steps through SSH as well as on the console (including > uncommenting the console entry in /etc/tty and trying). No luck. > > Any ideas what could be going wrong? I figure it must be something to do > with me not having X and not compiling Qemu with SDL/ X support ... is > that the case? 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. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com
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