Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 01:16:40 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is QEMU working/reliable under .... Message-ID: <20150129001640.GA35821@slackbox.erewhon.home> In-Reply-To: <54C945C3.3070607@hiwaay.net> References: <54C7C62A.5030605@hiwaay.net> <20150127210422.GA27921@slackbox.erewhon.home> <54C838CE.7040502@hiwaay.net> <20150128071441.GA29698@slackbox.erewhon.home> <54C8EFF3.6050803@hiwaay.net> <20150128192444.GA31295@slackbox.erewhon.home> <54C945C3.3070607@hiwaay.net>
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--5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 02:25:39PM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 01/28/15 13:24, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 08:19:31AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >> On 01/28/15 01:14, Roland Smith wrote: > >>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 07:18:06PM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wro= te: > >>>> On 01/27/15 15:04, Roland Smith wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:08:58AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III w= rote: > >>>>>> .... FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p5, qemu-0.11.1_18, kqemu-kmod-1.3.0.p11_= 12 ? I > >>>>>> have tried w/ kqemu loaded & unloaded (recommended online), w/ > >>>>>> -nographic, w/ -vga std, etc. No love. All I want to do is run a W= inXP > >>>>>> 32bit VM &/or a 64-bit Win7 VM from my desktop (xfce-4.10_7, xorg-= 7.7_1, > >>>>>> xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3_5) :-/ .... Several online sites imply that = it > >>>>>> works OK, 1 specifically w/ FreeBSD 9 no less. Any clues appreciat= ed, > >>>>>> any more info gladly provided .... > >>>>> This version is *ancient*. I would suggest trying qemu-devel instea= d, because > >>>>> that provides qemu-2.2.0. Last time I tried it 0.11 with or without= qkemu > >>>>> crashed a lot. > >>>>> > >>>>> According to the website, qemu version 0.11 and up do not support k= qemu > >>>>> anymore (see http://wiki.qemu.org/KQEMU), so you don't need that an= ymore. > >>>>> > >>>>> In time (and if your processor is new enough to have =E2=80=9Cexten= ded page tables=E2=80=9D) I > >>>>> guess qemu on FreeBSD could be replaced by the bhyve hypervisor tha= t is now in > >>>>> 10.x and is being developed further in HEAD. Currently bhyve can lo= ad FreeBSD, > >>>>> OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux guests. Support to run windoze as a guest= will come > >>>>> in the future. > >>>>> > >>>>> Roland > >>>> OK, I have qemu-devel compiled & installed, kqemu unloaded from the > >>>> kernel, & (hopefully) a build of a VM underway, command-line: qemu > >>>> -cdrom ../../../ISOs/winxp.iso -hda HDD.img -m 256 -boot d -cpu athl= on > >>>> -vga std -nographic -no-acpi -localtime, w/ qemu softlinked to > > If you specify -nographic you won't see *anything*. How are you going to > > interact with the windows installer that way? :-) > > > > Try: > > > > qemu-system-i386 -cdrom ../../../ISOs/winxp.iso -hda HDD.img -m 25= 6 -boot d > > > > Booting a windows HD image takes around 90 seconds on my machine. Slack= ware > > Linux takes around 120 seconds. Qemu isn't exactly a speed demon... >=20 > I tried this (plus -noacpi -localtime) & got X11 errors: >=20 > [root@kabini1, WinXP, 8:10:28am] 499 % qemu-system-i386 -cdrom=20 > ../../../ISOs/winxp.iso -hda HDD.img -m 256 -boot d -cpu athlon -vga std= =20 > -no-acpi -localtime >=20 > (<unknown>:20221): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: <snip> > I have had this problem before, when I 'su' to root (usually from an=20 > rxvt terminal running csh as a regular user), the environment isn't set= =20 > up correctly for most X11 stuff to work correctly when invoked from that= =20 > root CLI. I have posted about this before, but it still persists. Any=20 > clue how to get this to work for me :-) ? TIA & thanks for your reply. Don't run qemu as root. :-) It is not necessary. As a general principle, anything that doesn't *require* root should be run as a normal user. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 5753 3324 1661 B0FE 8D93 FCED 40F6 D5DC A38A 33E0 (keyID: A38A33E0) --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJUyXvoAAoJEED21dyjijPg8mIP/iGOR3zdFeDTXAO4OVz0YTkW o0zUl8cdKCMP991BBBxFM8utg+Q7dxjyLAt1EjFyIglwt9QirdF5vG+S4z+PImBm RbdLo3LFoB1PyKIma0tkC9HbF2h30Rv6YwdCFoeqaFqzushBVQ9ZdG2NKxRxHsI3 vWhG6Adv1mUvqbqhRuHsSJYzwvdJ3ANaxDpSrd5AsC4ZakvNz6ZtYfV8Ta+TMmA4 Abuol0wdnOeSCHd+AgBmFwA66m4gLksAntY6y8JFh1s3RNNZvwwj6tGKQgXws6SK wDevyGGdLNa+Z9N7zEly4XQhs5Lj+ts9aKWh0rmEyQRhtd6R58Lp2TDa6/umanIT C0EixMYPeQDyhAF051qCtU2kXG/mFKEVkaNY00IDl+W1AvDXyXk4ogj3o31ZZLJ/ jzVuHB7sRAwmkX5DB3Ihj82tTUZXIMau9g0W323/JrNYDYKx6pP1FdRNAJOWnT4w bxtbN5j1XOqEHqoqJyRVaBpBWSBn7cDO9xm5pub7t3TzBpab05lAKBSAAOCRbmEm AsOf9AgX6pszIp9NFpJlsLoDkuXGuDCpcF12a6CVIhrNXTECBx1piNtmrgmTMIQ8 GWIdrYeCPNuWZnOgxViOEHzdjZa70LcryZI0bOKehM1qM+yoV2BQW3I7oyJa3n/A vfGpb2eQR0qVTnMMzVK1 =f4Nq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5vNYLRcllDrimb99--
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