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From: Francisco Ares <frares@×××××××××.br>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu command line
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 19:14:41
Message-Id: 41B35E0B.7000809@terra.com.br
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu command line by Francisco Ares
1 Francisco Ares wrote:
2
3 > John Drouhard wrote:
4 >
5 >> On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 14:04 -0200, Francisco Ares wrote:
6 >>
7 >>
8 >>> Hi, All
9 >>>
10 >>> Reading the qemu man page, i guess that I'm doing things right, but
11 >>> that's not what qemu thinks ;-)
12 >>>
13 >>> I've created a 4G file like this:
14 >>>
15 >>> dd if=/dev/zero of=qemu.hd bs=1024 count=4194304
16 >>>
17 >>> and now I wish to install a Windoze98 in that fake hard disk like this:
18 >>>
19 >>> qemu-i386 -boot d -cdrom /dev/dvd -m 128 -fda /dev/fd0 -hda qemu.hd
20 >>>
21 >>
22 >>
23 >> You need to run the command qemu, not qemu-i386. If that binary does not
24 >> exist, then you need to recompile qemu with the "softmmu" USE flag
25 >> turned on.
26 >>
27 >> John
28 >>
29 >>
30 >>
31 >>
32 > I guess that's the point. Funny thing this is not its default. Gonna
33 > try it and let you know the result.
34 >
35 > Thanks
36 > Francisco
37 >
38 And that was really the point, now it is working.
39
40 Thanks John.
41 Francisco
42
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