On Wednesday 21 Feb 2007, Julian Seward wrote: > (replying off list) > > So you have Solaris 10 (x86 ?) running on qemu-0.9 ? Is it stable? > Does it work? I have it running on vmware-5.5.3 but would prefer to > move to running it on qemu if possible; however I've had mixed > results with qemu in the past and don't want to spend loads of time > on failed attempts to get it to work. Hence the question.
It was a great battle to install but now it is stable. Do the following things: 1. install from the DVD image 2. Use the text console install 3. At the end of the install, backup the image file *before* the first reboot 4. If during the first boot of the image, you get a segfault, restore and try again until you get to a prompt. Ignore any service failures. (the filesystem seems prone corruption at the first boot.) 5. If you have problems caused by damaged files, re-install choosing the "Update" option: this will restore the damaged files. After that, I was able to boot reliably into X. However, the filesystem seems very fragile if not shut down cleanly, so take regular backups! HTH -Robin. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel