Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:20:42 +0400 (GST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Adam J Richardson <fatman.uk@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Nothing happens with Qemu Message-ID: <55275.212.72.24.148.1185772842.squirrel@rakhesh.com> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0707291134m18babc29n5b3de36d43f3b7a7@mail.gmail.com> References: <55021.212.72.24.148.1185715537.squirrel@rakhesh.com> <46AC9EED.3030904@crackmonkey.us> <20070729183112.U11398@asterix.home.rakhesh.com> <d7195cff0707291134m18babc29n5b3de36d43f3b7a7@mail.gmail.com>
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> -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, you can still use QEMU to > debug a > Linux kernel with a serial console. > > But, I do not think you can run most (any?) installers like this, > without the serial console being redirected to _something_, and > if you're doing this over ssh, that default something may not be > immediately visible. Point. Which is why I even plugged in my monitor/ keyboard to the machine and ran Qemu at the console (I also uncommented the line in /etc/tty to enable console). Shouldn't that work then? > Per above (not quoted) -cdrom /dev/acd0 might not work if > the permissions are not set correctly on /dev/acd0. It is usually > easier under qemu to use the downloaded image instead of > burning to CD and all that. Or use dd to make a new image > if you've already deleted it. Yup, had read that somewhere. So tried with an image file instead of the actual CD. No go. :-/ Regards, RAkhesh
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