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  • From: t.maiden AT att.net
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image
  • Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:44:07 +0000


Its my understanding that you can run multiple QEMUs on the same host (if you
have enough memory to go around) but you shouldn't run QEMU in a QEMU because
you "risk breaking the host OS" whatever that means. (If this email has a
HTML attachment please let me know, thanks)
-------------- Original message from James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>:
--------------


> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>
> > bigger kernel). However, I have managed to boot the floppy
> > version in QEMU:
> > ----------------------------
> > qemu -fda bl3.f1 -fdb bl3.f2
> > ----------------------------
> > When it asked for floppy 2, I hit CTRL-C and edited /etc/rc.
> > I changed the line that says "mount /fd" to:
> > ------------------
> > mount /dev/fd1 /fd
> > ------------------
> > Then executed: /etc/rc
> >
> > It worked fine, although the colors in X were pretty strange.
> > It was funny to see Xvesa working on a computer which normally
> > refuses to run Xvesa (QEMU was running on the SVGA Xserver).
>
> I figured it should be possible to do something like this but I couldn't
> quite project the right steps. Thanks for pointing them out. If one were
> to specify a qemu HD image on that line as well as including the -boot
> option with the right parameters (so qemu doesn't try to boot from the
> qemu HD image), i.e., qemu -boot a -fda bl3.f1 -fdb bl3.f2 -hda
> BLqemu_img.img , one could go on to do a HD install as well. My attempts
> at installing Win98 under BL3 qemu were not entirely successful so far.
> But then I've been running BL3 inside qemu, and have been trying to run
> qemu within it. I think I'll need to try this with a BL3 install on real
> hardware to find out where the problem lies and to maybe meet with
> success.
>
> James
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