Re: qemu on Mavericks?

2014-01-13 Thread MK-MacPorts
On 14 Jan 2014, at 03:02 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Perhaps you could contribute to resolving the MacPorts VirtualBox ticket > then. I am afraid my knowledge about setting up a proper virtualbox installation is not sufficient for this endeavour. I tried a while ago though. Ticket #41392 hangs aro

Re: qemu on Mavericks?

2014-01-13 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 13, 2014, at 12:33, mk-macpo...@techno.ms wrote: > Well, I wanted to avoid using the upstream binaries, because I like to make > sure that nothing stays behind on my system once I upgrade or remove the > software. That’s why I like MacPorts. :-) > BUT, I guess, this is my only option lef

Re: qemu on Mavericks?

2014-01-13 Thread MK-MacPorts
On 13 Jan 2014, at 09:54 , Rainer Müller wrote: > You need -usb to activated USB support as it is not a default option. I Oh, I wasn’t aware of that! But well, this didn’t change anything with OpenSUSE 13.1… > Yes, QEMU on Mac OS X is quite slow as it does not get any > virtualization support. …

Re: qemu on Mavericks?

2014-01-13 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2014-01-12 22:23, mk-macpo...@techno.ms wrote: > On 12 Jan 2014, at 21:50 , Chris Murphy wrote: >> When I say USB device, I meant the interface in qemu that presents USB >> within the guest. Clearly the linux kernel is finding a USB bus. > > The command line to start up the VM is > — > qemu-s

Re: qemu on Mavericks?

2014-01-12 Thread MK-MacPorts
On 12 Jan 2014, at 22:41 , Chris Murphy wrote: > Maybe. Try adding -usbdevice tablet to the qemu command line. That made my trackpad almost unusable. :-( But it didn’t change anything. No progress during the system probe step. ___ macports-dev mailing

Re: qemu on Mavericks?

2014-01-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 12, 2014, at 2:29 PM, mk-macpo...@techno.ms wrote: > OK, now I found out using “info usb” that USB support is NOT enabled by > default. > So, perhaps that is the problem? Maybe. Try adding -usbdevice tablet to the qemu command line. http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-doc.html#pcsys_005f

Re: qemu on Mavericks?

2014-01-12 Thread MK-MacPorts
OK, now I found out using “info usb” that USB support is NOT enabled by default. So, perhaps that is the problem? ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev

Re: qemu on Mavericks?

2014-01-12 Thread MK-MacPorts
On 12 Jan 2014, at 21:50 , Chris Murphy wrote: > When I say USB device, I meant the interface in qemu that presents USB within > the guest. Clearly the linux kernel is finding a USB bus. The command line to start up the VM is — qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2G -cdrom openSUSE-13.1-NET-x86_64.iso -vga st

Re: qemu on Mavericks?

2014-01-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 12, 2014, at 12:44 PM, mk-macpo...@techno.ms wrote: > On 12 Jan 2014, at 20:31 , Chris Murphy wrote: >> So I think you need to remove the USB device in the qemu guest and see if >> that works. > > Chris, so far I am not trying to use any USB device. When I say USB device, I meant the

Re: qemu on Mavericks?

2014-01-12 Thread MK-MacPorts
On 12 Jan 2014, at 20:31 , Chris Murphy wrote: > So I think you need to remove the USB device in the qemu guest and see if > that works. Chris, so far I am not trying to use any USB device. I am just trying to install OpenSUSE using an ISO file… Well, and the installation procedure is searchin

Re: qemu on Mavericks?

2014-01-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 12, 2014, at 12:26 PM, mk-macpo...@techno.ms wrote: > Hi Josh, > > On 12 Jan 2014, at 19:47 , Joshua Root wrote: >> Well, it is going to be a lot slower than VirtualBox, as qemu is an >> emulator under these circumstances. Though there could also be issues >> with the USB support. > it’s

Re: qemu on Mavericks?

2014-01-12 Thread MK-MacPorts
Hi Josh, On 12 Jan 2014, at 19:47 , Joshua Root wrote: > Well, it is going to be a lot slower than VirtualBox, as qemu is an > emulator under these circumstances. Though there could also be issues > with the USB support. it’s an emulator, because it cannot make use of kvm... >> P.S.: qemu likes t

Re: qemu on Mavericks?

2014-01-12 Thread Joshua Root
On 2014-1-13 05:19 , mk-macpo...@techno.ms wrote: > I wanted to give qemu a shot - as an alternative for the currently > non-functioning virtual box [1] … > > Anyone out there who’s successfully using qemu on Mavericks? > > The small test linux image supplied by the qem

qemu on Mavericks?

2014-01-12 Thread MK-MacPorts
I wanted to give qemu a shot - as an alternative for the currently non-functioning virtual box [1] … Anyone out there who’s successfully using qemu on Mavericks? The small test linux image supplied by the qemu folks is running fine, but I am stuck installing OpenSUSE 13.1... Either