Anyone know qemu?

[Alexander Skwar]

Daniel Carrera schrieb:
> On Wed, 2006-05-07 at 23:00 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:


>> That's not the way it goes. You basically create a *blank* disk image,
>> start qemu, make it boot from a CD (or ISO) and then install Windows (or
>> whatever OS) on that disk, just as if you were installing a real computer
>> from scratch.
> 
> Ok, I'm learning... I know how to create a blank disk image. I also
> figured out how to boot from a CD...
> 
> qemu-img create -f qcow c.img 2G
> qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom
> 
> Now I need to figure out how to put these together. Do you know how I
> can boot from the CD ROM and also specify that c.img is supposed to be a
> blank hard disk on this virtual computer?

No, I don't. I gave up *VERY* early, because even on the test images
they provide, network doesn't work - or at least I couldn't get it
to work; that's probably more like it....

Anyway. I gave up and switched to vmware server - which doesn't work
either on my notebook. So, that was quite a success... :(

Alexander Skwar
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