Live-CD in Qemu

Narcis Garcia informatica at actiu.net
Wed Apr 29 07:36:44 UTC 2015


Checked virtual graphics with "lspci -nn" :

VirtualBox mounts a "00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: InnoTek
Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter [80ee:beef]"

Qemu mounts by default "00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Cirrus
Logic GD 5446 [1013:00b8]" but Gnome works better with "00:02.0 VGA
compatible controller [0300]: Device [1234:111]" (parameter -vga std)

Both Qemu cases work in all OS (and U-Gnome upto 14.04) but not in
U-Gnome 15.04
Is there any new VGA drivers problem with those graphics adapters?

PD: Don't know how to use InnoTek VGA in Qemu or others than VB.


El 28/04/15 a les 13:30, Narcis Garcia ha escrit:
> 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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