Live-CD in Qemu

[Narcis Garcia]

Tim: I need to virtualize this kind of checkings, because I often run
several number of machines at once to perform and compare simultaneous
actions and interactions.
I'm talking about Qemu because I use Matromu utility to call Qemu
(simpler than any other interface).
- I'm using Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 up-to-date
- QEMU emulator version 2.0.0 (Debian 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.10)

* I've tried all:
-vga [std|cirrus|vmware|qxl|xenfb|tcx|cg3|none]
but no luck.

* I've tried gnome-boxes but: 1. Doesn't manage properly Qemu RAM
limits, and fails with more than 2GiB at 32bits. 2. Same results with
the desktop loading (repeated graphic modes trying is seen)

* Which package can I install from repositories to run VMware?

* VirtualBox did the job (requires to enable PAE but then allows upto
3.5GiB of RAM for 32bit guest). But it's not a rapid tool for often and
diverse virtualisations (no complete command line management). I'll use
it only for strange cases as this Ubuntu-Gnome-Vivid.


El 27/04/15 a les 10:19, Alfredo Hernández ha escrit:
> My GNOME Boxes loads the LiveUSB image (both 32 and 64 bits) perfectly
> as well.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alfredo
> 
> On 27 Apr 2015 09:54, "Tim" <darkxst at fastmail.fm
> <mailto:darkxst at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On 27/04/15 17:26, Narcis Garcia wrote:
>     > I've tried to boot 15.04 Live-CD (current i386 release) in a Qemu
>     > virtual machine, but desktop doesn't seem to load (reimains in text
>     > console).
>     I just tested in gnome-boxes, and it booted fine, that uses QEMU but
>     via virt-manager, not directly. However both QEMU and KVM use software
>     rendering which can be a bit laggy, if you don't have a powerful
>     CPU. VMware and Virtualbox both other 3D support, which will help
>     greatly on
>     single core/lower power CPU's. VMware is the closest you will get to
>     real hardware, but if you just evaluating it before upgrading its
>     probably
>     best to boot the live cd on your real machine.
>     >
>     > Some Dmesg messages:
>     >
>     > ...
>     > [    3.281258] ACPI PCC probe failed.
>     > ...
>     > [    3.281752] mce: Unable to init device /dev/mcelog (rc: -5)
>     > ...
>     > [    8.500840] systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/casper.service:10]
>     > Failed to parse input specifier, ignoring: force-tty
>     > ...
>     > [   10.542073] 8139cp 0000:00:03.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps,
>     full-duplex,
>     > lpa 0x05E1
>     >
>     > Is something special needed to run it in a virtual machine?
>     >
> 
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