On 08/20/2015 11:26 AM, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I am back to the list to submit virt progress (or lack thereof) reports. > > I have what appears to be a working OpenBSD vm running in a very little tiny > qemu window (have yet to launch X) on my Jessie. > > Please review the following steps I took. They may be flawed so much as to > account for the _lack of networking_ on the openbsd instance. > > (I chose the install option of "dhcp" rather than > give the vm a static ipv4 address That choice, dhcp, > works when I use it with my Vmware Player on Windows 7 > and the same OpenBSD iso image. More later...) > > I sorta guessed my way thru some of this stuff: > > To make the raw disk: > 1.# qemu-img create myimage.img 12G > > To make the vm: > 2. # qemu-system-x86_64 -boot d -cdrom cd57.iso myimage.im > > To launch my new vm: > 3. # qemu-system-x86_64 myimage.img > > > Comments/corrections/excoriations are welcome! > If you run a GUI then Virtual Machine Manager makes this all a snap. VMM manages guest network, guest storage and guests through libvirtd. Just open a guest window and click run. Thats all there is to it. Of course you have to configure the guest... things like cpu cores, memory, network and display adapters.
...bob
