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So I emerged QEMU, which pulled in some dependancies. Things are not |
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going well... |
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1) The following warning shows up in elog... |
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> WARN: pretend |
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> You have decided to compile your own SeaBIOS. This is not supported |
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> by upstream unless you use their recommended toolchain (which you are |
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> not). If you are intending to use this build with QEMU, realize you |
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> will not receive any support if you have compiled your own SeaBIOS. |
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> Virtual machines subtly fail based on changes in SeaBIOS. |
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I don't see any USE flags about this. |
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2) I download a Gentoo install ISO, and create a 7 gig raw file sda.raw, |
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and start qemu-kvm |
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$ qemu-kvm -hda sda.raw -cdrom installx86.iso -boot d |
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Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied |
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failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied |
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but... but... but... I am a member of group "kvm". |
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3) su to root and retry to start QEMU |
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# qemu-kvm -hda sda.raw -cdrom installx86.iso -boot d |
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qemu-system-x86_64: pci_add_option_rom: failed to find romfile "pxe-e1000.rom" |
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VNC server running on `127.0.0.1:5900' |
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So root has sufficient permission, but there's a problem with the BIOS, |
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possibly related to item 1) above |
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Note; I can run as regular user, either of the 2 commands... |
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$ qemu-system-i386 -hda sda.raw -cdrom installx86.iso -boot d |
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$ qemu-system-x86_64 -hda sda.raw -cdrom installx86.iso -boot d |
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This doesn't run into permission problem 2), but still runs into the |
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rom not found problem 3). |
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4) At least VNC is running. I emerged tigervnc and tried it |
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$ vncviewer |
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TigerVNC Viewer 64-bit v1.2.0 (20130723) |
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Built on Jul 23 2013 at 21:36:16 |
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Copyright (C) 1999-2011 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt) |
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See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC. |
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X_ChangeGC: BadFont (invalid Font parameter) 0x0 |
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...and the dialog box is all blanks, presumably because of the missing |
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fonts. |
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I had QEMU working a few years ago, and I don't remember running into |
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all these problems. What gives? |
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-- |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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