From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 30 05:21:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553EA16A418 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:21:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rakheshster@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10EB413C48D for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:21:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rakheshster@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so1210636wxd for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:21:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received:message-id:in-reply-to:references:date:subject:to:cc:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:importance:from:sender; b=n4e1Z5Bh4sf29uBns+r0pZnnhrD4dg1kupqKgeVNhgu6xPKITcr9q8XLMgZHqaYC0qJlcVWEtpk/9OOa00sI7IMXWgdc22LaZkmc5e0tUXr/6GOuVNPJxNXHdTc5Lvd+Hi92uwYLsuJJDS228luYFyEPUgI/Z/voDpbEBYHRHS0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:in-reply-to:references:date:subject:to:cc:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:importance:from:sender; b=OD8Jg0yvvwmwlSuMh2+Bk9j//nQh/TWU2YCMedEWq6N+hOioI/JAmhsB78SCJokdaMoH3kMEX9OgZGtoA0ZNSsb0ZTSadbye2aFC7gNZl9+W425I6GO24u2zx3ikr3yKzFQmJEf62OWxlabroK+5aTL3QMjaI/FnZiuUqpxRAbM= Received: by 10.90.49.1 with SMTP id w1mr1455590agw.1185772904200; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:21:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.home.rakhesh.com ( [82.178.139.14]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 20sm2851231agd.2007.07.29.22.21.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:21:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rakhesh.com (asterix.home.rakhesh.com [192.168.17.23]) by smtp.home.rakhesh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90F0D11420; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:21:22 +0400 (GST) Received: from 212.72.24.148 (SquirrelMail authenticated user rakhesh) by rakhesh.com with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:20:42 +0400 (GST) Message-ID: <55275.212.72.24.148.1185772842.squirrel@rakhesh.com> In-Reply-To: References: <55021.212.72.24.148.1185715537.squirrel@rakhesh.com> <46AC9EED.3030904@crackmonkey.us> <20070729183112.U11398@asterix.home.rakhesh.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:20:42 +0400 (GST) To: "illoai@gmail.com" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.10a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal From: Rakhesh Sasidharan Sender: Rakhesh Sasidharan Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Adam J Richardson Subject: Re: Nothing happens with Qemu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:21:45 -0000 > -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