2007/7/10, Al Hopper <al at logical-approach.com>: > 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 ....
I don't want to run Belenix on (Open)Solaris/SXCR. I want to run Belenix on Linux under Qemu. If one of the topics for the OpenSolaris community is "how can we show OpenSolaris to the Linux community?" then it should be possible to go the virtualization road for a Linux user to look into the world of Solaris. > > 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. I already tried to install Belenix nativly. My thread about this got no answer until now. AND: You don't tell me how I should use my machine. I am running FreeBSD under Qemu fully and without problems, I can even build FreeBSD fully under Qemu without problems. The only distro which makes problems is Belenix. And I just want to know why and how we can get rid of its problems. To tell me how to use my machine and not to use virtualization for Belenix would not solve its problems - I already showed that for some reason SXCR doesn't have this problems -. > Sorry - offtopic. Linux != OpenSolaris. The only OpenSolaris > relevant Linux project is Indiana. This is not off-topic. Belenix is for the big community out there to look into Solaris land. They should have the possibility to run Belenix under Qemu. So they can learn easier, without possibly getting into trouble by installing natively.
