On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:18:31PM +1000, Brett Mahar wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:15:59 -0400 > Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote: > > | Hi all, > | > | Has anyone gotten qemu to install a Linux vm on OpenBSD5.5, 64bit? > > Hi Steve, > > There's a readme that is installed when you install the qemu package, you > should check that out. I had opensuse running a while ago (lots of the other > linux distributions would not work). What I did was: > > After creating .img file: > > $ ulimit -d 2000000 > > $ qemu -m 1300 -no-acpi -monitor stdio -no-fd-bootchk -hda virtual.img -cdrom > openSUSE-11.4-GNOME-LiveCD-i686.iso -boot d > > Then when you get to the installer screen, select f4[kernel version]>safe > mode; F3[graphics]>vesa > > Once installed and virtual disk compressed, normal booting works with: > > $ qemu -m 1300 -no-acpi -no-fd-bootchk -hda virtual.img > > then selecting failsafe mode to boot into a console (no x11) desktop. If you > want a graphical desktop > environment, choose failsafe mode and then delete "nomodeset x11 failsafe" > from the boot arguments. > > This would need to be adjusted for newer qemu, command line options I used > recently with pcbsd were: > > $ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 256 -cdrom > PCBSD10.0.2-RELEASE-06-20-2014-x64-DVD-USB.iso pcbsd-qemu.img > > launch: > $ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1200 -display gtk -vga std -sdl -hda pcbsd-qemu.img > > Brett.
Thanks a lot. I will try that too because I had problems with Linux distributions too. Maybe, this 'Damn Small Linux' thing might be usable... . Gentoo booted, too (the install iso), but I don't want to waste my entire life compiling linux stuff inside qemu. However, I got MINIX up and running within qemu (the system compiles inside the qemu box without any problems) and of course, OpenBSD runs inside qemu, too.
