[Qemu-devel] SMB server and permissions

2006-10-09 Thread Richard Neill
Dear All, Just thinking - it would be really neat to get a Linux "live-CD" working with a USB stick, and SMB. Sort of like Qemu-Puppy, or damnsmalllinux-embedded do. BUT... DSL/PuppyLinux both use a loopback filesystem and a disk image for /home. This works well, but the disk-image is hard

[Qemu-devel] smb option requires full path! Grr!

2005-12-14 Thread Richard Neill
I've just spent *hours* tracking this down. When you invoke qemu with the -smb option, unless you specify the full path to the directory which is to be shared, you get all sorts of totally weird and unhelpful windows errors. Fixes that are needed: 1)Most urgently, this documentation page:

[Qemu-devel] Buglet - close window warning

2005-11-24 Thread Richard Neill
There's a buglet in qemu in that, if you close the window, it will just exit. It would be really useful if it warned you not to do this, but to shut down the virtual machine first. Like most applications do to prevent dataloss without saving first. Best wishes, Richard

[Qemu-devel] Re: user-net -redir working?

2005-11-23 Thread Richard Neill
[thread edited for brevity] > > I think that -redir really is broken: I've also been unsuccessful in > trying to make it work using an FTP server on a Windows guest, and using > the SSH server on a knoppix guest. Has anyone here ever had success with > it? It also fails on hosts with 2 differ

[Qemu-devel] Re: user-net -redir working? [problem located]

2005-11-22 Thread Richard Neill
Re: User-net not working: > Disabling the Nagle algorithm (i.e., enabling TCP_NODELAY) or typing a > lot of garbage just to fill the buffer with enough data can help, > also. > > And IIRC, netcat has a UDP mode as well. I see no reason for this to > happen, but is there any chance it's using

[Qemu-devel] user-net -redir working?

2005-11-21 Thread Richard Neill
Re: User-net not working: Disabling the Nagle algorithm (i.e., enabling TCP_NODELAY) or typing a lot of garbage just to fill the buffer with enough data can help, also. And IIRC, netcat has a UDP mode as well. I see no reason for this to happen, but is there any chance it's using UDP by defaul

[Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-devel Digest, Vol 32, Issue 41

2005-11-20 Thread Richard Neill
Dear All, I thought you might like to know the following: Neither Qemu 0.7.2 nor 0.7.1 will compile under gcc 4.0.1, which is the default under Mandrake 2006. It works fine with the older 3.3.6 though. This is a know problem, and there's little that can be done right now without considerable

[Qemu-devel] user-net -redir working?

2005-11-20 Thread Richard Neill
Does the user-net redirection for tcp actually work? I have been unable to make it work at all! I've tried several different host machines (all Linux, different versions of Qemu from 0.6.1 to 0.7.2), and different guests (Win98 and Knoppix). But it doesn't work. Eg: qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -b

[Qemu-devel] Compile failure of 0.7.2 with gcc 4.0.1

2005-11-20 Thread Richard Neill
Dear All, I thought you might like to know the following: Neither Qemu 0.7.2 nor 0.7.1 will compile under gcc 4.0.1, which is the default under Mandrake 2006. It works fine with the older 3.3.6 though. Here are the relevant bits of the output. I've cut all the irrelvant bits, but I'm includ

[Qemu-devel] Booting a partition image (not a disk image)?

2005-11-13 Thread Richard Neill
tem fine. Is there any way I can boot this image using QEMU? i.e. there is no boot sector, and I've not copied the rest of the drive to save space. The obvious solution doesn't work: qemu -boot c -snapshot -hda hda2.img Thanks very much, Richard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** http://w

[Qemu-devel] Qemu-devel digest getting wrongly marked as spam

2005-10-24 Thread Richard Neill
Dear All, I thought that someone on here might like to know that Spam Assassin really doesn't like this list! I don't know why, and Qemu is the only false positive I get. Anyway, here's what Spam Assassin says: X-Cam-SpamScore: ss X-Cam-SpamDetails: scanned, SpamAssassin (score=6.897, MIS