Pete Theisen wrote:
> On Thursday 28 June 2007 19:17, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote:
>
>> After hearing about qemu, I decided to take a look at it. I have it up
>> a running and it reminds me of dosemu, which I ran under Linux about the
>> time windows 95 came out.
>>
>> I hit a few bumps getting everything running, but after I got the
>> acceleration working it's not bad. Still, It's not nearly as mature as
>> VMware. Below are some of the thinks I hit in get gemu going.
>>
>> 1) I had to manually create the /dev/kqemu and set permissions to
>> 666
>>
>
> Hi Leland!
>
> I hope you didn't lose your religion, or your soul.
>
After I had kqemu working with acceleration, it quit working. Finding
exactly how to get kqemu going with FC6 is tricky, since there are so
many versions of Linux, and each is a little different, and there are at
least two different way to create the /dev/kqemu character device.
I worked on it until about 1:00 AM last night; got up this morning and
decided to give it another go, and just got it going again round 10:00
AM this morning. I now have it set to initiate on boot and creates the
/dev/kqemu character device using udev when "emu -hda c.img -m 384
-kernel-kqemu" is sent from a desktop launcher.
I learned a few things along the way, like qemu and kqemu will not
compile from source with gcc 4.1 that comes with FC6, and I didn't want
to go back to a gcc 3.4 version of the compiler. The gemu and kgemu
accelerator that load via the yum extender are earlier versions and
install in different directories that the later versions of
gemu.x.x.x.gz and kgemu.x.x.x.rpm accelerator, so I had to uninstall via
the yum extender, and then install via a gemu.x.y.z.gz which hold
binaries, (eg gemu will not compile on FC6), and I used rpm to install
the kgemu.x.x.x.rpm files.
I'm still learning about geum, but it really appears to be a fine piece
of work; safe and stable.
I plan on taking a close look at Red Hat's xen, which also works with
virtual machines, as soon as they have it working with windows.
Regards,
LelandJ
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