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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 17:41:33
Message-Id: 41B3483A.3020107@terra.com.br
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu command line by John Drouhard
1 John Drouhard wrote:
2
3 >On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 14:04 -0200, Francisco Ares wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>Hi, All
7 >>
8 >>Reading the qemu man page, i guess that I'm doing things right, but
9 >>that's not what qemu thinks ;-)
10 >>
11 >>I've created a 4G file like this:
12 >>
13 >>dd if=/dev/zero of=qemu.hd bs=1024 count=4194304
14 >>
15 >>and now I wish to install a Windoze98 in that fake hard disk like this:
16 >>
17 >>qemu-i386 -boot d -cdrom /dev/dvd -m 128 -fda /dev/fd0 -hda qemu.hd
18 >>
19 >>
20 >
21 >You need to run the command qemu, not qemu-i386. If that binary does not
22 >exist, then you need to recompile qemu with the "softmmu" USE flag
23 >turned on.
24 >
25 >John
26 >
27 >
28 >
29 >
30 I guess that's the point. Funny thing this is not its default. Gonna
31 try it and let you know the result.
32
33 Thanks
34 Francisco
35
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Re: [gentoo-user] qemu command line Francisco Ares <frares@×××××××××.br>