Thanks for the feedback. Since I do not wish to be involved in a great battle (as you so nicely put it) I'll stick with VMware (sigh).
J On Wednesday 21 February 2007 15:05, Robin Atwood wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel