On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Gueven Bay wrote:
> In the last two or three weeks I again tried to get Belenix run under
> Qemu on a Linux host.
>
> I installed Slackware 11 and this Qemu package
> http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/qemu/pkg/11.0/qemu-0.9.0-i486-1.tgz
>
> Belenix boots and comes to the point after selecting the GUI and then
> he goes into scanning devices but then there comes a long error
> message and it returns to the grub boot screen.
>
> Unfortunately the error message is too long _and_ it doesn't stop
> there returning too fast to the boot screen to write down the error
> messages - for me it seems just like a kernel oops - .
>
> !! If you want then I can make a screenshot and post it here. !!
>
> Then I went the "Sidux" road - Sidux is a installable LiveCd of Debian
> Sid (Unstable) the development branch of Debian -. So I installed
> Sidux and then this package:
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/qemu
>
> Again the same failure as above.
>
> I just cannot get Belenix run under any environment. It is so frustrating.
There is an OpenSolaris Qemu project. They can help you run qemu
under Solaris express developers edition, Solaris express community
edition or an opensolaris kernel built from the source code. This
would be a good starting point for you ....
> But I really want to work on Belenix - for example in translating the
> "hdinstaller" script and some more parts in Belenix - . For this I
> have to build a test environment where I can install Belenix in a
> virtual image.
Again - if you're serious about this - you'll dedicate a machine, or
at the very least, a hard disk drive, to this effort.
> Help me, please, help me.
Sorry - offtopic. Linux != OpenSolaris. The only OpenSolaris
relevant Linux project is Indiana.
Regards,
Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. al at logical-approach.com
Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT
OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/ogb_2005-2007/
