Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Virtual PC

[Jacques Landru]

Chris Gianelloni wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 14:15 -0500, Kessler, Paul wrote:
>
>
>>I know this is a bit sick in a way, but has anyone tried running a
>>LiveCD build under MS Virtual PC? I have a college professor friend
>>that would like to try my build, however when he loads the vpc the iso
>>seems to boot just fine up until the desktop loads. After that the
>>screen goes crazy. I have never used vpc so I’m not really even sure
>>where to start. Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>
>VMWare Player... :P
>
>I would suspect Virtual PC is doing something funky with regards to the
>video that the LiveCD isn't understanding.  Unfortunately, Virtual PC
>doesn't exactly run on Linux, so you definitely won't be able to get any
>help from me on it.
>
>
>
In the same way
I use QEMU to test my gentoo "catalysted" livecds
- under Windows
  > cd /path/to/qemu
  > net start kqemu
  > qemu  -L . -cdrom "x:/path/to/my-livecd/gentoo.iso" -boot d -m 512
- under linux
 $ modprobe kqemu
 $ qemu -cdrom "/path/to/my-livecd/gentoo.iso" -boot d -k fr -m 512
Note
   - under linux you have to set -k "your keyboard country" in the 
command line, and launch "gentoo dokeymap" when starting the livecd in 
the virtual machine to correctly set your keyboard.
    - under windows the "-L ." switch is needed.

Jacques Landru


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