Re: [Qemu-devel] No useful documentation.
On 7/5/06, Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-07 at 17:12 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: A person who is in your position (frustrated for lack of documentation) is actually the most qualified person to write documentation. Feel free to ask any questions you have on this list. I would be happy to contribute a section. First I need to learn how qemu works though. Just the basics. On another list someone told me that the way qemu works is by first creating a blank image, then booting a CD from the virtual machine and installing. At this point I know how to make a blank image, and I know how to boot a CD: qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom Now I need to figure out how to put these together so that if this CD can install an operating system, qemu will know to use the blank image I made (call it c.img) as a hard drive for its virtual machine. Could someone tell me how to do that? With the blank image file do the following: qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda blank_disk_image_file the '-cdrom /dev/cdrom' option could also be -cdrom iso_image_file ___ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu tutorial
On 7/5/06, Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A quick FYI. I mentioned that on another list someone explained that I was supposed to create a blank disk image first and then boot from a CD ROM. I then asked there do you know how to do that?. His response was No, I don't... I switched to vmware. The point of this is that I'm not the only person who can't figure this out from the documentation. You won't hear much about this because people who can't get started are not likely to join this list and ask. Please do use a quick tutorial like the one I wrote. I seem to have a similar problem when trying to get a image networked correctly. ___ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player
On 6/14/06, Joe Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why on earth would we want to make a crippled version of qemu? AFAIK Creating a VMware virtual machine is just making a config file. qemu doesn't have config files, so your question makes no sense. Well, I was not thinking or suggesting of a crippled qemu version. I asked the question because there are some software appliances which are pre-built and pre-configured apps that are built on a LAMP stack and packaged as a single image type file. This image file can be downloaded and run on a product similar to VMware Player. This is used for quick demo purposes of an application with out the need to have a full virtual machine. I am totally new to VM technologies but have played around with VMware and the player as well. So, my question was just an inquiry to see if that capability would make sense on a qemu based product that is open source. However, thanks and appreciated your comments/feedback! ...(removed additional quoted material) If you are looking at something like rpath/rbuilder then qemu will run those images that are packaged as raw HDD. If you set the options right the running image has network access also. I am trying to figure out how to get the network access options working for the windows version of Qemu. ___ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
