Qemu Howto

[ianw1974]

I did that, my mirrors bang up-to-date, except it doesn't seem to exist :P

 

I did download from a website, and use the kommander line to run it, but I'm not sure this is exactly the same, so maybe I need to download and compile a module for the kernel instead.

 

I tried all morning and it takes way too long to install the Operating System. It sits there at detecting hardware for ages. VMware and Win4Lin a lot faster. I don't think I'll use qemu.

 

As an addendum to your line, I figured it might install quicker if I did this:

 

qemu -m 512 -boot d -cdrom /dev/hdd -hda hd.img

 

the key being adding the memory, in hope this would help. However, it didn't.

[devries]

That´s what kqemu is for.. to speed things up :D

 

If you can´t find the rpm try building from source. Download qemu and kqemu, untar and copy the kqemu folder to the qemu folder (./configure, make and make install).

 

Note: make uninstall doesn´t work so make a note where all the files go.

 

Good luck.

[ianw1974]

Did you do the install of the operating system using kqemu then? It didn't mention this at the beginning of the document so wasn't sure.

 

If you can let me know, I'll give it another try with kqemu to install the OS, if that's the case.

[devries]

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-accel.html

 

For more information

 

Yes I did. (WinXP took about 40 minutes from beginning to end'

[ianw1974]

Cool, I've download it, but can't use ./configure (no file exists!).

[devries]

Configure in the qemu folder, not in the kqemu folder (that´s a binary. No need to build that :) )

[ianw1974]

Doh! Righto :P

[ianw1974]

This kqemu, is a pain in the butt.

 

I downloaded it, and I cannot get it to work. When I try make I get the error that kqemu.o does not exist.

 

If I then do make install, followed by ./install the error is:

 

cp: cannot stat 'kqemu.o': No such file or directory

[devries]

Did you untar kqemu and did you place that kqemu folder in the qemu folder?

[ianw1974]

I did yes, but for some reason I'm missing kqemu.o which I presume is a kernel module. This file doesn't exist in the tar file.

 

If there was a urpmi rpm for me to use, I'd have no problems I'm sure. Can't figure out why, I'm using LE2005, and there's no kqemu for me to install.

[devries]

Perhaps there is some little man in your pc that is eating kqemu.

 

I´ll see f I can find kqemu for you when I get home. In the meantim try setting a trap for this little pest and try to catch him before he does more damage.

[ianw1974]

I caught him, shut the machine off. He ain't going anywhere :P

[uralmasha]

Perhaps there is some little man in your pc that is eating kqemu.

Is that the same little man that doesn't allow me to install XP, because "the partition is not suitable" It cannot make a partition on the assigned space. I made it a 3 Gig on a sata drive. I haven''t installed kqemu, though, as plf doesn't have x86-64 version yet.

 

NB: it has i586 version though.

[devries]

The kqemu package on my pc is installed from plf. It´s called dkms-kqemu-xxxxx

 

uralmasha: try different ways of making an image file. read the qemu docs for more information.

[ianw1974]

That's bizarre, I have plf-free and plf-nonfree. Here's my output:

 

[root@mandriva ian]# urpmf --name kqemu
[root@mandriva ian]# urpmf --name dkms
dkms-minimal:dkms-minimal-2.0.5-3mdk.noarch.rpm
dkms:dkms-2.0.5-3mdk.noarch.rpm
dkms-lazyfs:dkms-lazyfs-0.1.26-1mdk.noarch.rpm
dkms-aic79xx:dkms-aic79xx-2.0.12-3mdk.noarch.rpm
dkms-ivtv:dkms-ivtv-0.2.0-rc3h_1mdk.i586.rpm
dkms-rt2500:dkms-rt2500-1.4.4.0-2mdk.noarch.rpm
dkms-zaptel:dkms-zaptel-1.0.7-1mdk.i586.rpm

 

I don't seem to have an rpm available. I'm running LE2005, with all urpmi sources configured.