Re: [Qemu-devel] Networking problems

2010-08-12 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Cliff Wright wrote: > Its been a while since updating qemu, so on old version I had > -net nic,model=ne2k_pci -net user -redir tcp:2023::22 -soundhw es1370 > is the missing "-net user" causing you trouble? Actually, yes, the "-net user" flag makes a difference. Th

[Qemu-devel] Networking problems

2010-08-12 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello, I've spent the last day trying to get NetBSD installed on a QEMU virtual machine. The problem I'm having is that I can't get online. As of now, this is the command I'm using: qemu -cdrom netbsd-i386cd-5.0.2.iso -hda NetBSD.img -no-acpi -net nic,model=pcnet With this command I can get a vi

Re: [Qemu-devel] No useful documentation.

2006-07-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Wed, 2006-05-07 at 17:00 -0700, Mike Swanson wrote: > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 15:01, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > Yes, but the doc doesn't, for example, explain how you are supposed to > > put a bootable image in "file". This is addressed by the excellent > &g

Re: [Qemu-devel] No useful documentation.

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Thu, 2006-06-07 at 00:48 +0200, Flavio Visentin wrote: > This is qemu-DEVEL, not qemu-HELP; it's supposed to be a place where to > chat about the development and related issues (although lack of doc is > effectively a development issue). Yes. As I wrote in my initial email, I wrote here because

Re: [Qemu-devel] No useful documentation.

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Wed, 2006-05-07 at 15:34 -0700, Ronnie Misra wrote: > I think it's great that you've offered to write documentation for > qemu, but perhaps the discussion would have been smoother if you'd > started with: Point taken. I admit I have little patience for poor documentation. Especially when it

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu tutorial

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
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. Cheers, Daniel. On Wed, 20

Re: [Qemu-devel] No useful documentation.

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Wed, 2006-05-07 at 23:46 +0200, Udo 'Robos' Puetz wrote: > __Straight from the docs__ > > -hda file > -hdb file Yes, but the doc doesn't, for example, explain how you are supposed to put a bootable image in "file". This is addressed by the excellent responses from Nathaniel and Rick, and I in

[Qemu-devel] Qemu tutorial

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello all, As promised, here is a tutorial I would recommend to get people started. It's short and sweet: <- Tutorial: Full system emulation under Linux --- Alright, you have qemu installed and now you want to run a client OS under q

Re: [Qemu-devel] No useful documentation.

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Wed, 2006-05-07 at 16:25 -0500, Rick Vernam wrote: > qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda /path/to/your/image -boot d Thank you!!! You're the man! I'll write a brief tutorial and post it here as promised. Cheers, Daniel. -- http://opendocumentfellowship.org "The reasonable man adapts himself to the

Re: [Qemu-devel] No useful documentation.

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Wed, 2006-05-07 at 22:25 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Personally I found Qemu astonishingly easy to use, and simply not > needing a lot of documentation to get an OS installed from CD into it. I don't expect it needs a lot of documentation. It is a mistake to think that "good" documentation equ

Re: [Qemu-devel] No useful documentation.

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Wed, 2006-05-07 at 17:34 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dan - Try reading. -Ben > Thank you, I did think of that, it didn't work. The documentation is not particularly useful. In particular, it doesn't tell you how to actually get an OS running under qemu, which, I'm sure, is the most typic

Re: [Qemu-devel] No useful documentation.

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
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.

[Qemu-devel] No useful documentation.

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello, I write here because there doesn't seem to be a Bugzilla for qemu and whoever is responsible for the qemu documentation must be here. The documentation is quite worthless. I'm sure you don't like hearing that, but consider that it doesn't actually show the user how get qemu to do what qem