At Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:49:08 +0000, Richard Lewis wrote: > I'm very new to QEMU. I have verion 1.1.2 from Debian stable > installed. I'm logged into the guest system via SSH. > > I'm trying to create a VM on which to install Debian. This is what > I've done: > > $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 debian-image.qcow 2G > $ qemu-system-x86_64 -hda debian-image.qcow -cdrom > debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso -boot d -m 512 -curses > > When I do this I see a screen showing me: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 640 x 480 Graphic mode > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
So it seems that the ISO image *is* booting, it's just that I can't see the installer on the terminal because it's in VGA mode. That's presumably what the above screen was telling me. But my QEMU knowledge was too deficient to know that. I eventually managed to work out how to connect a VNC client to it: host$ qemu-system-x86_64 -hda debian-image.qcow -cdrom debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso -boot menu=on -m 512 -vnc :1 And then on my local X11 machine: $ vncviewer host::5901 And I found the install menu waiting for me! Richard
