Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU -nographic Option with OVMF

2021-06-05 Thread Nils Freydank
Am Montag, den 24.05.2021 um 11:52:22 Uhr +0100 schrieb Michael : > On Monday, 24 May 2021 02:01:15 BST Oliver Dixon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I decided to bite the bullet yesterday and switch from clunky, and generally > > untoward, VirtualBox to QEMU/KVM for developing kernel modules. I have a > >

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU not running on new machine

2021-05-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 07:43:59PM +0200, Branko Grubi?? wrote > > Hi, > > What comes to my mind is actually describe in here[1]. Possibly > virtualization is disabled in BIOS/Firmware. > > > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU#BIOS_and_UEFI_firmware Thank you very much; that was it. QEMU

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU not running on new machine

2021-05-26 Thread Branko Grubić
On Wed, 2021-05-26 at 12:50 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: >   With my older machine locking up once too often at in-opportune > times, > I've switched over to a newer machine, which I've tried to set up > identically.  QEMU is not laumching.  It worked on the older system. > The error message is... >

[gentoo-user] QEMU not running on new machine

2021-05-26 Thread Walter Dnes
With my older machine locking up once too often at in-opportune times, I've switched over to a newer machine, which I've tried to set up identically. QEMU is not laumching. It worked on the older system. The error message is... [x8940][waltdnes][~] /home/misc/qemu/arca/boot Could not access KV

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU -nographic Option with OVMF

2021-05-24 Thread Michael
On Monday, 24 May 2021 02:01:15 BST Oliver Dixon wrote: > Hi, > > I decided to bite the bullet yesterday and switch from clunky, and generally > untoward, VirtualBox to QEMU/KVM for developing kernel modules. I have a > working Gentoo VM with all the bells and whistles I need/want (UEFI > booting,

[gentoo-user] QEMU -nographic Option with OVMF

2021-05-23 Thread Oliver Dixon
Hi, I decided to bite the bullet yesterday and switch from clunky, and generally untoward, VirtualBox to QEMU/KVM for developing kernel modules. I have a working Gentoo VM with all the bells and whistles I need/want (UEFI booting, NIC passthrough, SSH forwarding, NFSv4 support, etc.), but it's run

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-05 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/5/19 12:22 PM, n952162 wrote: But, since it's included in the package, and apparently (from the name) will use a NBD device, then I think the dependency is logical I disagree. QEMU itself does not use NBD. Thus QEMU does not need to depend on qemu-nbd. QEMU uses files on mounted file

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-05 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/5/19 12:50 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: No, but since it is provided by the ebuild, the ebuild should check that the target system is capable of supporting it. The qemu ebuild already spits out warnings about missing kernel options, not all of them essential, so why not this one too? I thin

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 12:01:33 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > qemu-nbd is a utility to act as a NBD server to allow the Linux kernel > to be an NBD client to access qcow(2) image files. > > qemu-nbd is not /needed/ for normal QEMU operation. No, but since it is provided by the ebuild, the ebuild sho

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-05 Thread n952162
Very informative explanation. On 12/05/19 20:01, Grant Taylor wrote: On 12/4/19 11:03 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: nbd is a "Network Block Device" driver along the lines of NFS, but it doesn't handle concurrency. https://nbd.sourceforge.io/ I think I'd liken NBD to iSCSI more so than NFS.  Primari

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-05 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/4/19 11:03 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: nbd is a "Network Block Device" driver along the lines of NFS, but it doesn't handle concurrency. https://nbd.sourceforge.io/ I think I'd liken NBD to iSCSI more so than NFS. Primarily because both NBD and iSCSI provide local block devices that are bac

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 08:05:46 +0100, n952162 wrote: > Or maybe the assumption is wrong - after emerging *nbd*, I still get > this when I try to modprobe nbd, which is required for running > *qemu-nbd*: > > modprobe: FATAL: Module ndb not found in directory > /lib/modules/4.19.72-gentoo The assumpt

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-04 Thread n952162
On 12/05/19 08:17, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 08:11, n952162 wrote: Or maybe the assumption is wrong - after emerging nbd, I still get this when I try to modprobe nbd, which is required for running qemu-nbd: modprobe: FATAL: Module ndb not found in directory /lib/modules/4.19.

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-04 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 08:11, n952162 wrote: > > Or maybe the assumption is wrong - after emerging nbd, I still get this when > I try to modprobe nbd, which is required for running qemu-nbd: > > modprobe: FATAL: Module ndb not found in directory /lib/modules/4.19.72-gentoo > > Can anyone explain h

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-04 Thread n952162
Or maybe the assumption is wrong - after emerging *nbd*, I still get this when I try to modprobe nbd, which is required for running *qemu-nbd*: modprobe: FATAL: Module ndb not found in directory /lib/modules/4.19.72-gentoo Can anyone explain how to run *qemu-nbd* on gentoo? On ubuntu, one would

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-04 Thread n952162
But qemu includes qemu-nbd, and it seems that qemu-nbd requires nbd.ko, which is presumably provided by sys-block/nbd. In other words, qemu provides a facility which seems to only work with nbd - or is that a wrong assumption? On 12/05/19 07:03, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 04:28

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 04:28:26PM +0100, n952162 wrote > do I understand this correctly? In order to run qemu-nbd, you emerge > app-emulation/qemu > > but that isn't all, you've also got to emerge sys-block/nbd? nbd is a "Network Block Device" driver along the lines of NFS, but it doesn't ha

[gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-04 Thread n952162
Hello, do I understand this correctly?  In order to run qemu-nbd, you emerge app-emulation/qemu but that isn't all, you've also got to emerge sys-block/nbd? Why doesn't qemu have a dependency on nbd?  I don't find any relevant USE flags.

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU: windows guest crashing

2018-06-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2018-06-07 um 09:33 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 2018-05-30 um 17:06 schrieb Marko Weber: >> hello, >> >> Am 2018-05-30 12:09, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >>> Am 2018-05-30 um 10:46 schrieb Bill Kenworthy: error messages? - I get this happening sometimes from the oom killer whe

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU: windows guest crashing

2018-06-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2018-05-30 um 17:06 schrieb Marko Weber: > hello, > > Am 2018-05-30 12:09, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 2018-05-30 um 10:46 schrieb Bill Kenworthy: >>> error messages? - I get this happening sometimes from the oom killer >>> when the server runs out of memory - semi-random (usually  but

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU: windows guest crashing

2018-05-30 Thread Marko Weber
hello, Am 2018-05-30 12:09, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 2018-05-30 um 10:46 schrieb Bill Kenworthy: error messages? - I get this happening sometimes from the oom killer when the server runs out of memory - semi-random (usually  but not always the same vm) And the VM itself idles at 1,8 G

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU: windows guest crashing

2018-05-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2018-05-30 um 10:46 schrieb Bill Kenworthy: > error messages? - I get this happening sometimes from the oom killer > when the server runs out of memory - semi-random (usually  but not > always the same vm) And the VM itself idles at 1,8 GB RAM used right now.

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU: windows guest crashing

2018-05-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2018-05-30 um 10:46 schrieb Bill Kenworthy: > On 30/05/18 15:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> maybe someone has hit that as well: >> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/656886 >> >> bug report at redhat is from yesterday (!) >> >> - >> >> That windows guest is shutting down and/or crashing now and then

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU: windows guest crashing

2018-05-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 30/05/18 15:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > maybe someone has hit that as well: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/656886 > > bug report at redhat is from yesterday (!) > > - > > That windows guest is shutting down and/or crashing now and then. > Same QEMU/libvirt combo at another site runs >20 VMs w

[gentoo-user] QEMU: windows guest crashing

2018-05-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
maybe someone has hit that as well: https://bugs.gentoo.org/656886 bug report at redhat is from yesterday (!) - That windows guest is shutting down and/or crashing now and then. Same QEMU/libvirt combo at another site runs >20 VMs without problems. I'd be happy to find some workaround or fix a

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU on a partition

2018-03-02 Thread R0b0t1
On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 5:56 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: > I've found that removing not-strictly-needed layers of abstraction reduces > complexity and makes things faster. > I can't find it again, but there was a neat writeup investigating the TCP over TCP "tunnel collapse" phenomena. When two layers

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU on a partition

2018-03-02 Thread Grant Taylor
On 03/02/2018 09:45 AM, Mick wrote: Does it make a measurable difference, after the guest OS has booted? IMHO, /bin/yes I'll need to try this out. :-) Yes, you should try it out for yourself. I've found that removing not-strictly-needed layers of abstraction reduces complexity and makes

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU on a partition

2018-03-02 Thread Grant Taylor
On 03/02/2018 08:33 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: You can pass a block device directly to QEMU, and this is recommended for performance reasons. I have a Windows 10 VM that was passed an entire SSD; it runs fine, and you can take the disk and plug it into other computers. Passing a partition is a little di

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU on a partition

2018-03-02 Thread R0b0t1
On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Mick wrote: > On Friday, 2 March 2018 15:33:02 GMT R0b0t1 wrote: >> You can pass a block device directly to QEMU, and this is recommended >> for performance reasons. > > Does it make a measurable difference, after the guest OS has booted? > > I'll need to try this

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU on a partition

2018-03-02 Thread Mick
On Friday, 2 March 2018 15:33:02 GMT R0b0t1 wrote: > You can pass a block device directly to QEMU, and this is recommended > for performance reasons. Does it make a measurable difference, after the guest OS has booted? I'll need to try this out. :-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU on a partition

2018-03-02 Thread R0b0t1
On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Mick wrote: > On Friday, 2 March 2018 11:34:09 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Friday, 2 March 2018 11:12:36 GMT Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'd like to install a second Gentoo system on a partition by running >> > QEMU using that partition (directly)

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU on a partition

2018-03-02 Thread Mick
On Friday, 2 March 2018 11:34:09 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 2 March 2018 11:12:36 GMT Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to install a second Gentoo system on a partition by running > > QEMU using that partition (directly) - this is to create and update a > > Gentoo > > sys

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU on a partition

2018-03-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 2 March 2018 11:12:36 GMT Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to install a second Gentoo system on a partition by running > QEMU using that partition (directly) - this is to create and update a > Gentoo > system with different CFLAGS (for an older machine). > > Having no experien

[gentoo-user] QEMU on a partition

2018-03-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to install a second Gentoo system on a partition by running QEMU using that partition (directly) - this is to create and update a Gentoo system with different CFLAGS (for an older machine). Having no experience in such setups my initial problem is how to install grub2 on that par

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU virtio_gpu

2016-11-28 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 11/25/2016 11:10 AM, john wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 13:12:33 + > john wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to run qemu virtual machine with virtio_gpu using the >> following command >> >> /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -smp 8 -localtime >> -cdrom Fedora-Workstation-Live-x

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU virtio_gpu

2016-11-25 Thread john
On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 13:12:33 + john wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to run qemu virtual machine with virtio_gpu using the > following command > > /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -smp 8 -localtime > -cdrom Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-25_Beta-1.1.iso -boot > once=d,menu=off

[gentoo-user] QEMU virtio_gpu

2016-11-24 Thread john
Hi, I am trying to run qemu virtual machine with virtio_gpu using the following command /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -smp 8 -localtime -cdrom Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-25_Beta-1.1.iso -boot once=d,menu=off -vga virtio -display gtk,gl=on but getting the following error w

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU/distcc combination question64-

2016-01-07 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 13:27:52 -0500 waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 02:56:58PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote > > > For 32-bit distcc on 64-bit host there is no need to chroot or > > create VM (hey, they're hellishly slow!). Just add -m32 to your > > *FLAGS to force 32-bit arch

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU/distcc combination question64-

2016-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 22:34:24 -0600, Jc García wrote: > > I serve the binpkg host from my > > desktop to my LAN with nginx but I'm considering git from the booted > > container > Correction: > * I'm considering doing it from the booted container Why not just use a shared NFS directory? -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU/distcc combination question64-

2016-01-02 Thread Jc García
2016-01-02 22:31 GMT-06:00 Jc García : > I serve the binpkg host from my > desktop to my LAN with nginx but I'm considering git from the booted > container Correction: * I'm considering doing it from the booted container

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU/distcc combination question64-

2016-01-02 Thread Jc García
2016-01-02 14:25 GMT-06:00 : > On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 12:55:56PM -0600, Jc García wrote > >> Then why the recently introuced multilib method of bulding 32bit >> libraries for packages that need it on 64 bit works? I don't think the >> devs would have bothered to introudce the variable ABI_X86 an

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU/distcc combination question64-

2016-01-02 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 12:55:56PM -0600, Jc García wrote > Then why the recently introuced multilib method of bulding 32bit > libraries for packages that need it on 64 bit works? I don't think the > devs would have bothered to introudce the variable ABI_X86 and a > mulitib eclass just to compile

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU/distcc combination question64-

2016-01-02 Thread Jc García
2016-01-02 12:27 GMT-06:00 : > On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 02:56:58PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote > >> For 32-bit distcc on 64-bit host there is no need to chroot or >> create VM (hey, they're hellishly slow!). Just add -m32 to your >> *FLAGS to force 32-bit arch. (In some rare cases ebuild ignores

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU/distcc combination question64-

2016-01-02 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 02:56:58PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote > For 32-bit distcc on 64-bit host there is no need to chroot or > create VM (hey, they're hellishly slow!). Just add -m32 to your > *FLAGS to force 32-bit arch. (In some rare cases ebuild ignores > {C,CXX,F,FC}FLAGS, while this is a

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU/distcc combination question64-

2016-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 2 January 2016 11:56:58 GMT+00:00, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 10:42:31 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 22:11:34 -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to run a distccserver in a 32-bit VM on a 64-bit > host, for > > > the benefit of my a

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU/distcc combination question64-

2016-01-02 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 10:42:31 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 22:11:34 -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > I'm trying to run a distccserver in a 32-bit VM on a 64-bit host, for > > the benefit of my ancient 32-bit-only netbook. Yeah, "it'll work" using > > the native 64-bit

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU/distcc combination question.

2016-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 22:11:34 -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > I'm trying to run a distccserver in a 32-bit VM on a 64-bit host, for > the benefit of my ancient 32-bit-only netbook. Yeah, "it'll work" using > the native 64-bit host OS. But any stuff that links against 32-bit > libraries is

[gentoo-user] QEMU/distcc combination question.

2016-01-01 Thread waltdnes
First, basic definitions. distcc ==> compile on machine A for machine B. No mention of whether the processors are different architectures. cross-compile ==> compile under architecture A for architecture B I'm trying to run a distccserver in a 32-bit VM on a 64-bit host, for

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU unable to initialize audio

2015-12-25 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 04:10:40AM +, Ian Bloss wrote > I was saying the libsdl packages have a USE flag "sound" which builds the > sound module for sdl. So if qemu makes any calls to the sound module not > pure alsa calls, that might be causing your issue. > > Wabes USE flag output shows he's

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU unable to initialize audio

2015-12-24 Thread Ian Bloss
I was saying the libsdl packages have a USE flag "sound" which builds the sound module for sdl. So if qemu makes any calls to the sound module not pure alsa calls, that might be causing your issue. Wabes USE flag output shows he's building sdl with the "sound" use flag enabled and not just alsa al

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU unable to initialize audio

2015-12-24 Thread wabenbau
waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 10:48:28PM +, Ian Bloss wrote > > Libsdl and libsdl2 built with sound use flag on host? > > I didn't bother enabling alsa except for packages that actually need > it. I've enabled it for libsdl, but not for sdl2, because I didn't > rea

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU unable to initialize audio

2015-12-24 Thread waltdnes
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 10:48:28PM +, Ian Bloss wrote > Libsdl and libsdl2 built with sound use flag on host? I didn't bother enabling alsa except for packages that actually need it. I've enabled it for libsdl, but not for sdl2, because I didn't realize libsdl2 even existed. According to e

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU unable to initialize audio

2015-12-24 Thread Ian Bloss
Libsdl and libsdl2 built with sound use flag on host? On Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 16:04 wrote: > Any ideas? The error message is... > > sdl: SDL failed to initialize audio subsystem > sdl: Reason: No available audio device > audio: Could not init `sdl' audio driver > > I get this both with a Gen

[gentoo-user] QEMU unable to initialize audio

2015-12-24 Thread waltdnes
Any ideas? The error message is... sdl: SDL failed to initialize audio subsystem sdl: Reason: No available audio device audio: Could not init `sdl' audio driver I get this both with a Gentoo guest... #!/bin/bash qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm \ -cpu host -display gtk \ -drive file=gento

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm replacement

2014-06-10 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Heiko Zinke wrote: >> >> So if I "sudo virsh edit vmname" and substitute "/usr/bin/qemu-kvm" by >> "/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -enable-kvm" I only get this >> error :( >> "error: Cannot che

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm replacement

2014-06-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Heiko Zinke wrote: > > So if I "sudo virsh edit vmname" and substitute "/usr/bin/qemu-kvm" by > "/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -enable-kvm" I only get this > error :( > "error: Cannot check QEMU binary /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine > accel=k

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm replacement

2014-06-10 Thread Heiko Zinke
Hi, with my recent qemu update from 1.6 to 2.0 I got the following error: * The kvm/qemu-kvm wrappers no longer exist, but your libvirt * instances are still pointing to it. Please update your * configs in /etc/libvirt/qemu/ to use the -enable-kvm flag * and the right system binary (e.g. qemu

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU guest fs is coming up read-only

2013-08-06 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > I've got a 32-bit QEMU Gentoo guest on my machine. For some reason, > it comes up readonly, and other partitions aren't being mounted. > Unfortunately, the initial messages flash by so quickly I can't read > them to get an idea of what's go

[gentoo-user] QEMU guest fs is coming up read-only

2013-08-06 Thread Walter Dnes
I've got a 32-bit QEMU Gentoo guest on my machine. For some reason, it comes up readonly, and other partitions aren't being mounted. Unfortunately, the initial messages flash by so quickly I can't read them to get an idea of what's going wrong. Since /usr isn't mounted, "less" isn't available.

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:17:41AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote > That's correct if you want optimal performance in > X.org. The best option is -vga vmware in conjunction with > x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware. The last time I used qemu a few years ago, I ended up running wine from the guest as an X

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:26:36AM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote > Not all VNC-clients do this. > Which do you use? In my case, it's tightvnc, which does not auto-resize. And in linux tightvnc, {F8} brings up the dialogue. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applicat

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/07/2013 10:26, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, July 25, 2013 11:17, Kerin Millar wrote: On 25/07/2013 09:54, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:16:21AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote I stumbled over the solution to my final problem by accident. When booting off the install cd, yo

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, July 25, 2013 11:17, Kerin Millar wrote: > On 25/07/2013 09:54, Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:16:21AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote >>I stumbled over the solution to my final problem by accident. When >> booting off the install cd, you have 15 seconds to "hit any key",

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/07/2013 09:54, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:16:21AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote 2) What "vncviewer" or "vncconnect" parameters do I use to get to the qemu session? Assuming both server and client are run locally, connecting to either "localhost:0" or "localhost:5900" sho

[gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:16:21AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote > > > 2) What "vncviewer" or "vncconnect" parameters do I use to get to the > > qemu session? > > Assuming both server and client are run locally, connecting to either > "localhost:0" or "localhost:5900" should work. Thanks. That h

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/07/2013 04:24, Walter Dnes wrote: Thanks to all who replied. sys-firmware/seabios needed the "binary" flag and sys-firmware/ipxe needed the "qemu" and "vmware" flags. It's starting now, and most of my problems are solved. I still have permission problems as a regular user with qemu

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Walter Dnes
Thanks to all who replied. sys-firmware/seabios needed the "binary" flag and sys-firmware/ipxe needed the "qemu" and "vmware" flags. It's starting now, and most of my problems are solved. I still have permission problems as a regular user with qemu-kvm, but qemu-system-i386 works. Root can

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/07/2013 14:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:57:41 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: WARN: pretend You have decided to compile your own SeaBIOS. This is not supported by upstream unless you use their recommended toolchain (which you are not). If you are intending to use this build

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:57:41 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: > >> WARN: pretend > >> You have decided to compile your own SeaBIOS. This is not supported > >> by upstream unless you use their recommended toolchain (which you are > >> not). If you are intending to use this build with QEMU, realize you >

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/07/2013 10:50, Walter Dnes wrote: So I emerged QEMU, which pulled in some dependancies. Things are not going well... 1) The following warning shows up in elog... WARN: pretend You have decided to compile your own SeaBIOS. This is not supported by upstream unless you use their recomme

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On 24/07/13 17:50, Walter Dnes wrote: > So I emerged QEMU, which pulled in some dependancies. Things are not > going well... > > 1) The following warning shows up in elog... > >> WARN: pretend >> You have decided to compile your own SeaBIOS. This is not supported >> by upstream unless you use

[gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Walter Dnes
So I emerged QEMU, which pulled in some dependancies. Things are not going well... 1) The following warning shows up in elog... > WARN: pretend > You have decided to compile your own SeaBIOS. This is not supported > by upstream unless you use their recommended toolchain (which you are > not).

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.10.2012 22:45, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Unfortunately I still don't see what to compile in for this unknown > PCI-device: the old kernel seems not to know what to do with PIIX3 > (although exactly the same kernel uses PIIX4 fine on vmware). > > Maybe some different PCI-bus .. ? afte

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.10.2012 22:06, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Worth a try, sure. Although that old suse isn't exactly gentoo ... you > know ;) Apart from testing the software inside the VM ... I got my first own 2.2-kernel booted in there ;-) I was able to add some other features I missed before, looks O

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.10.2012 21:34, schrieb Florian Philipp: > Given that the kernel is old and unsupported anyway, couldn't you > just compile a slightly newer one with the right modules? Or > transplant it from the other VM you mentioned? Yes and no ... the software running in the VM is somehow compiled "agai

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 09.10.2012 21:21, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 09.10.2012 20:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> When I cp a file within that VM it takes ages ... unfortunately the OS >> doesn't bring much modules with it so I can't just swap the virtual >> controller for SCSI or so :-( > > addition:

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.10.2012 20:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > When I cp a file within that VM it takes ages ... unfortunately the OS > doesn't bring much modules with it so I can't just swap the virtual > controller for SCSI or so :-( addition: within vmware-context I get a virtual PIIX4-IDE-controller.

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Sorry folks, I get OT again. I already spent around 3 days now fiddling around with a new and shiny virtualization server running am64. Issue: I have to run a guest which is old: Suse Linux 6.1, with a 2.2.5 kernel. ext2-filesystems in there ... I run that one OK on an older gentoo-host with

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and xscreensaver

2012-08-30 Thread jdm
Whenever I run a qemu-kvm when xscreensaver starts it stops guest os from working. Eg if I am emerging on guest or downloading a file when xscreensaver starts on the host the guest freezes. Stopping xscreensaver and guest continues where left off. I can cure this by disabling xscreensaver but s

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and xscreensaver

2012-08-29 Thread jdm
Whenever I run a qemu-kvm when xscreensaver starts it stops guest os from working. Eg if I am emerging on guest or downloading a file when xscreensaver starts on the host the guest freezes. Stopping xscreensaver and guest continues where left off. I can cure this by disabling xscreensaver but s

[gentoo-user] qemu not working on a P3M

2012-07-07 Thread William Kenworthy
I have been using qemu to run windows and gentoo vms on gentoo for some years and moved to qemu-kvm a while back - works well on my current Intel core 2 desktop I have decided to give VMware-workstation the boot off my work laptop (even with work paying for a licence its just too hard to keep it r

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

2011-07-18 Thread john
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:04:51 + j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: > No unfortunately > --Original Message-- > From: Matthew Finkel > To: Gentoo > ReplyTo: Gentoo > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm > Sent: 16 Jul 2011 17:51 > > On 07/15/11 20:24, john wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

2011-07-16 Thread jdm
No unfortunately --Original Message-- From: Matthew Finkel To: Gentoo ReplyTo: Gentoo Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm Sent: 16 Jul 2011 17:51 On 07/15/11 20:24, john wrote: > I am running a gentoo amd64 qemu-kvm virtual image on my gentoo amd64 > box. > > Everything is

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

2011-07-16 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 07/15/11 20:24, john wrote: > I am running a gentoo amd64 qemu-kvm virtual image on my gentoo amd64 > box. > > Everything is running well. Machine boots up and all looks to be ok. > > When I startx the screen goes purple (on guest) and locks up. The only > error message I get is on host. > > KVM

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

2011-07-16 Thread jdm
, 15 Jul 2011 23:02:45 To: Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm On Saturday, July 16 at 01:24 (+0100), john said: > I am running a gentoo amd64 qemu-kvm virtual image on my gentoo amd64 > box. > > Everything is running well. Machine boots up a

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

2011-07-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Saturday, July 16 at 01:24 (+0100), john said: > I am running a gentoo amd64 qemu-kvm virtual image on my gentoo amd64 > box. > > Everything is running well. Machine boots up and all looks to be ok. > > When I startx the screen goes purple (on guest) and locks up. The only > error message I

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

2011-07-15 Thread john
I am running a gentoo amd64 qemu-kvm virtual image on my gentoo amd64 box. Everything is running well. Machine boots up and all looks to be ok. When I startx the screen goes purple (on guest) and locks up. The only error message I get is on host. KVM internal error. Suberror: 1 emulation failur

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu command line manager (rc scripts)

2011-07-12 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > On Monday, July 11 at 18:28 (+0300), Kfir Lavi said: > > > Hi, > > I'm looking for xen like manager to manage my virtual machines when > > computer > > boots. > > Is there any such project? > > > libvirt (can also manage Xen): > > http:/

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu command line manager (rc scripts)

2011-07-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Monday, July 11 at 18:28 (+0300), Kfir Lavi said: > Hi, > I'm looking for xen like manager to manage my virtual machines when > computer > boots. > Is there any such project? libvirt (can also manage Xen): http://libvirt.org/

[gentoo-user] qemu command line manager (rc scripts)

2011-07-11 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, I'm looking for xen like manager to manage my virtual machines when computer boots. Is there any such project? Regards, Kfir

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm black screen and infinite loop on startup

2011-04-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 12:00 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > Hi Albert, > Can you paste your USE flags for qemu? > > Thanks, > Kfir USE="aio sdl vde -alsa -bluetooth -brltty -curl -esd -fdt -hardened -jpeg -ncurses -png -pulseaudio -qemu-ifup -sasl -ssl -static"

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm black screen and infinite loop on startup

2011-04-06 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:06 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > Hi, > > After updating qemu-kvm to 0.13.0-r2 I get an infinite loop when running > > qemu. > > You can spot the loop with strace. > > This problem shows on Redhat > > https://bugzilla.re

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm black screen and infinite loop on startup

2011-04-06 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:06 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > Hi, > > After updating qemu-kvm to 0.13.0-r2 I get an infinite loop when running > > qemu. > > You can spot the loop with strace. > > This problem shows on Redhat > > https://bugzilla.re

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm black screen and infinite loop on startup

2011-04-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:06 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: > Hi, > After updating qemu-kvm to 0.13.0-r2 I get an infinite loop when running > qemu. > You can spot the loop with strace. > This problem shows on Redhat > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553689#c5 > and they say that it is related

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm black screen and infinite loop on startup

2011-04-05 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, After updating qemu-kvm to 0.13.0-r2 I get an infinite loop when running qemu. You can spot the loop with strace. This problem shows on Redhat https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553689#c5 and they say that it is related to the seabios. Does anyone have this problem too? I'm compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 11:39, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > The logo stays there for about 10 sec or so ... and the clock gets slooower. It *seems* solved now. Enabled high res timers in host-kernel and DISabled "internet time" (=ntp-client) in Windows7-guest. Now it is quicker and no drifting clock (w

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 10:46, schrieb Petri Rosenström: > I use kvm on gentoo, I really don't use the clock on the windows > guests (I don't use windows vm) :). But I could guess that the issue > might be with localtime, so you could try using "-rtc base=localtime" > parameter with starting the windows ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 10:46, schrieb Petri Rosenström: > I use kvm on gentoo, I really don't use the clock on the windows > guests (I don't use windows vm) :). But I could guess that the issue > might be with localtime, so you could try using "-rtc base=localtime" > parameter with starting the windows ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Petri Rosenström
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Greets, > > does anyone else run KVM on gentoo as well? > > I delivered a amd64-server these days and a Win7-pro-guest runs on it. > > Now they tell me they have clock issues in the guest :-( > > I found > > http://docs.fedoraprojec

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 10:12, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Now they tell me they have clock issues in the guest :-( [...] > I don't know where to start. Another fact: When I access the guest via RDP, it is slower than when I access it via the libvirt-console (which in fact is VNC, right?) hmm

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