Hi all,
By the time you take into account host OS distro and hardware, every
setup is unique. For those whose situation is anything like mine,
running Devuan as a Qemu guest VM is difficult. So let me tell you two
must-know difficulties I've learned, and the workaround for each:
1. Mouse pointer
Hi Steve,
Thanks for the pointers.
Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> By the time you take into account host OS distro and hardware, every
> setup is unique. For those whose situation is anything like mine,
> running Devuan as a Qemu guest VM is difficult. So let me tell you two
> must-know difficu
Joel Roth wrote:
> > 1. Mouse pointer won't leave VM window, even if you press Right+Ctrl
>
> When I run qemu, Ctrl+Alt is the key combination to leave the VM.
>
> The option '-usbdevice tablet' permits the guest to get the
> cursor position without grabbing the mouse. In practice, I
> can click
On 170322-18:35-1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks for the pointers.
>
> Steve Litt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > By the time you take into account host OS distro and hardware, every
> > setup is unique. For those whose situation is anything like mine,
> > running Devuan as a Qemu guest
Steve Litt wrote on 2017-03-23 06:02:
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NETWORKING DOESN'T WORK
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[snip]
I've found it easiest to set up a host "tap", owned by user, for
networking, with a couple of iptables rules, and a dnsmasq for dhcp
service (not dns) on the tap. Then I can run my qemu VM as