Instead of using QEMU, my I recommend VirtualBox OSE? http://www.virtualbox.org/
In my experience, speed wise, VBOSE blows the doors off of QEMU. On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Whit Hansell <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, I messed up just then. Forgot to do a reply all to get it to the lug > too and didn't answer your question re the install. > > Yes the install went flawlessly. Ran into problems when I shut it down and > went to restart it and found out about the cd needing to be in the drive for > it to work. thanks. > Whit > > Hey thanks Kyle, > When I open up the VMM and hit run w. no cd in the drive, it immediately > throws up an error --- > Error starting domain: internal error QEMU quit during console start > > QEMU could not open disk image /dev/sr0 > > Details: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 531, in > run_domain > vm.startup() > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 380, in startup > self.vm.create() > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 262, in create > if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self) > libvirtError: internal error QEMU quit during console startup > qemu: could not open disk image /dev/sr0 > > note from whit > (/dev/sr0 is the source path according to the hardware list in the vmm > and the target is hdc for the cd drive.) > > Does it make any sense to you? Thanks for the reply. Your help is > greatly appreciated. If you know any other way to do the install I'll > even try that. I just used this one because it was all over the net so > figured it would be ok. > > Cheers. > Whit > > > > Kyle Gonzales wrote: >> >> What exactly happens when there is no CD in the drive? Does it throw >> an error? Did the initial Windows install complete without errors? >> >> On Monday, April 19, 2010, Whit Hansell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hey guys and gals, >>> >>> I'm totally frustrumated w. this virtual stuff. Love the concept and >>> have made strides successfully but have run into a big blank wall. >>> >>> I'm using KVM and the Virtual Machine Manager GUI to set up a guest >>> WinXP system on my Debian AMD64 system. I've taken the time to set >>> aside 20G of space for virtual machines and have succesfully set up >>> WinXP on an 8G slice w. NTFS in an .img file. I've got internet access >>> and sound need to access the CD/dvd drive to install some Windows >>> programs which is the whole reason for the Windows virtual system. I >>> have found that in order for the WinXP to even run I need to have a cd >>> in the drive. Blank or no. Doesn't make a difference. It's not being >>> read anyway; it just has to be there. And I cannot use the cd drive to >>> install any programs because according to the early developers, they had >>> to leave it open because of the need for Windows to reboot to finish the >>> installation. It means that in this case, the cd/dvd drive is useless >>> to me except to hold a blank cd so I can start Windows. >>> >>> Has anyone found a workaround for this? I've googled all over the place >>> and only found the one instance where this situation is even mentioned >>> and they say I can use the menu and the eject button to remove the cd >>> and close the drive. But it does not work. Nor do the Crtl+Alt+# sets >>> work for me. >>> >>> Any recommends will be much appreciated. I've been fooling around with >>> this for a couple of weeks and have not found the answer. >>> >>> TIA and thanks for being here for all of us whether anyone knows the >>> answer to this mess or not. I learn from all of you. >>> >>> Whit > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > List archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] List archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml
